OK, this is getting really bad.

[unixronin]

interdictor reports that New Orleans police have been joining the looters, and the remaining honest cops are holed up under siege in their precincts and taking automatic-weapons fire.

The Big Easy is falling apart ... what's left of it.

---

Update:

Confirmation from the Times-Picayune, with photos, here.  This PDF page has a front-page photo of uniformed New Orleans cops leaving Wal-Mart with an armful of DVDs and what looks like maybe a copy of Windows XP.

This is despicable.  To say "We don't have the power to stop it" is one thing.  But to JOIN THE LOOTERS?!?

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

There are still National Guardsmen in the country?

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Fortunately.

There's 1600 mobilized in Mississippi right now for disaster relief, and Alabama's sending two battalions of theirs to Mississipi to help.