Looter shoots cop...about to get bad...bad...

NOLA.com

As evidence floods, criminal cases likely collapse
By Michael Perlstein
and Trymaine D. Lee

New Orleans criminal justice officials cringed Wednesday at another disaster evolving in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: the possible long-term collapse of the city’s criminal justice system.

With the flooding of the police department’s evidence and property room in the basement of police headquarters, evidence and records in hundreds of criminal cases appeared to be irretrievably lost, police spokesman Marlon Defillo said.

Evidence in the most serious, pending cases, from murder to rape to robbery, was housed in the basement, Defillo said.
“We lost thousands of documents and untold evidence,” Defillo said. “We lost everything.”

While the inmates were successfully evacuated, the ongoing
shutdown of criminal court could lead to the unavoidable release of dozens of suspects awaiting charges. By law, suspects must be tried within 30 days of a misdemeanor arrest and within 45 days of a felony arrest or they are automatically released from any bond obligation.

 

I don't think this should apply at this time. I hope the media covers the release, if any, of some of the violent ones. Someone should be there to take care of them. If you know what I mean.

 

That's the thing though. If the "evidence" is gone, then there is no cases, doesn't matter if there are 30 days or 300 days. You have to think it's mostly low grade crimes, but I don't like the idea of unleashing law breakers on any city.

 

Martial law, you don't need a "case." You just need a "guess" and a blow gun.

 

ha ha ha, i'm not talking about the people who are looting and shooting people and setting fires now. I'm talking about the ones incarcerated that will get to go free now with no evidence.

 

Time to bring in some Apaches from Ft. Rucker to provide cover and stop bs'ing with these idiots.

 

While watchng the news coverage on tv over the weekend, I saw stories about how the City was using buses not to run normal routes, but to pick up people and take them to shelters. They (the City Govt.) seemed to be making every effort possible to get people to safety. I am 99% sure (everything is kind of becoming a blur at this point) that on Sunday, I saw the buses we transporting people that wanted to evacuate to Lafayette.

I think the majority of poor people who had no means to get out by themselves took advantage of what the City had to offer.

 

just when you thought you'd heard it all........

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168112,00.html

 

Great post!! I understand a little more now. Thanks for taking the time to actually answer my questions and not automatically assume I was a racist.:thumb: