it s not katrina that caused nopd to be like it was. it just manifests the un dysfunction. katrina didn t cause new orleans problem. it just made everything that we had much clearer. many police officers worked hard to secure the city and rescue survivors during the storm and the aftermath. but more than 200 overwhelmed nopd officers deserted their posts. while others did ltle to help their desperate fellow citizens. can you do anything to help these people? we have people coming and helping, sir. who s coming? five years after katrina, there s still little public trust in the police department, and new orleans murder rate remains the highest in t nation. but there are signs the divisions exposed by the storm are beginning to heal. mayor landrieu won with a majority of every racial group in the city, of every single
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