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To: combjelly who wrote (251349)	9/14/2005 9:53:41 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) of 1573841

I think the largest failure was not imagining law enforcement would collapse and people would start looting only a few hours after the city flooded. For the city to lose their radio communication system is inexcusable.... cnn.com None of the main planning scenarios -- including those of van Heerden -- anticipated such civil unrest. Looting and disorder happened after Hurricane Andrew, but nothing like in New Orleans. This compares with the calm after the Northeast power blackout in the summer of 2003, especially in New York, which had seen far worse during previous electrical failures. But the unraveling of New Orleans happened seemingly within hours. Quite a bit of it appears to have been gang-related, according to law enforcement officials here. Crime in New Orleans was so bad already that the FBI office here was on the verge of setting up an unprecedented tactical operations center before Katrina, something it hadn't done anywhere else in the country, to monitor and target the worst of the violent criminals.

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