Katrina Coverage

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations.
There will be a criminal investigation, and the three officers were to be suspended, arrested and charged with simple battery Sunday, […]

At the very least, they deserve an award for boldness:
Acting New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Thursday that as many as 40 officers from the department's 3rd District, including the commanding captain, are "under scrutiny" for possibly bolting the city in the clutch and heading to Baton Rouge in Cadillacs from a New Orleans […]

Please post links to scanner transcripts, videos, etc. etc. in the comments.
These are four links to very large, raw log files. Save to disk and open in notepad or similar:
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner.freenode.log
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner2.freenode.log
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner3.freenode.log
http://carolinacomputingsolutions.com/nola/%23interdictor-scanner4.freenode.log
There are several links here

CNN appears to have usurped the scooping rights of WAFB in this case, so lets look at them first. In "Investigation Launched Concerning Looting by NOPD Officers" they describe how one of their reporters went to the Amerihost Inn and Suites and found out that some NOPD officiers had holed up on the 10th floor […]

Unnamed New Orleans Police officers tell NOLA that after NOPD superintendent Compass resigned, he returned to the cruise ship where he and others are staying, and:
"He was going around telling officers, including myself, it wasn't his doing, that he would've never quit," said a high-ranking officer who asked not to be named. "He had tears […]

The police department has launched an investigation into whether officers participated in the giant looting spree that overtook the city after Hurricane Katrina, a spokesman said Thursday.
News reports in the aftermath of the storm put officers at the scene of some of the heaviest looting, the Wal-Mart in the Lower Garden District. Some witnesses […]

The NYT joins the re-writing fray with "Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans".
Before reading that article, you might want to take a look at "FBI investigating NOPD corruption, phantom cops; $5k bonus" and "Mortician contradicts reports downplaying crime, Part 2". Both of those, er, "amplify" the NYT's reporting:
…It is still impossible to say if […]

[11/14/05 UPDATE: To avoid confusion, see also "NOPD phantom cops: real or fiction?"]
The New Orleans Police Department had 1500 to 1700 officers. Well, not exactly. See, it's like voting, Democratic Party style. In actual fact (article was at allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000310543, but now missing) they might have only had 900 to 1000 actual, living, breathing, uniform-wearing officers. […]

New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass said this at a news conference today:
"I served this department for 26 years and have taken it through some of the toughest times of its history. Every man in a leadership position must know when it's time to hand over the reins… I'll be going on in another direction […]

The TRO that the NRA got to stop gun-grabbing in New Orleans has some statements that seem to run counter to the facts. You've heard of and probably seen video of guns being grabbed, but, as it says here:
Now the appropriate officials [Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans and P. Edwin Compass, III, Superintendent of […]