A comment from the linked post:

"IMO This is why more people were not rescued out of New Orleans shortly after the hurricane. I'm in North Louisiana and we are dealing with the folks that were brought to the shelters, will not comply with the rules and have been asked to leave the shelters. They are now on our streets. A security guard was stabbed 2 blocks from a nearby hospital, homes have been broken into in the area of the shelter, purse snatchings have been reported and our normally quite city is walking on egg shells. We are locking our homes, offices and warning our family and loved ones to be "extra careful"! How do you help people who want to hurt others??

Posted by: Just Somebody's Grandma | Sep 3, 2005 9:58:34 AM"

Reuters (I know, but) account

Valenti and her husband, two of very few white people in the almost exclusively black refugee camp, said she and other whites were threatened with murder on Thursday.

"They hated us. Four young black men told us the buses were going to come last night and pick up the elderly so they were going to kill us," she said, sobbing. "They were plotting to murder us and then they sent the buses away because we would all be killed if the buses came -- that's what the people in charge told us this morning."

Other survivors recounted horrific cases of sexual assault and murder.

Sitting with her daughter and other relatives, Trolkyn Joseph, 37, said men had wandered the cavernous convention center in recent nights raping and murdering children.

She said she found a dead 14-year old girl at 5 a.m. on Friday morning, four hours after the young girl went missing from her parents inside the convention center.

"She was raped for four hours until she was dead," Joseph said through tears. "Another child, a seven-year old boy was found raped and murdered in the kitchen freezer last night."

Several others interviewed by Reuters told similar stories of the abuse and murder of children, but they could not be independently verified.

With New Orleans law enforcement like this (Cops Caught on Tape) is any of this a surprise?

Anarchy? Riots?

Seems like a perfect time to send your city's police officers on a paid vacation to Vegas.

You know, to "jumpstart the healing process."

WTF? We have troops doing one year tours in combat zones for Christ's sake. I think something is very, very rotten in the New Orleans PD and city government. A suicide by the department spokesman? Shipping law enforcement personnel out of state? Wow.

and he brushed off questions about whether such a trip might look like a dereliction of duty.

"I'll take the heat on that," Mr. Nagin said. "We want to cater to them."

well that would certainly buck the trend to date.