Undoubtedly, there are corrupt cops in NO - is not it what NO is known for? - but it is also good police work to retrieve weapons and ammunition or cash in the situation of total lawlessness. The cops observed doing that may be doing good police work or looting, or perhaps some of each, but the casual observer has no way of knowing which. He/she makes a blanket judgment based on his/her own prejudices - just as the media people do.
Have the common sense and critical judgment went south altogether on this list?
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Oh Wojtek, how you dazzle me at times with your shiny chrome shield of rationality.
Please note that the words you disapprovingly quote didn't come from a listmember, but were from a LiveJournal blogger who's on the scene offering his impressions.
Hardly a "casual observer" as you wrote.
So, this gnashing of teeth over the list's descent into un-common sense is misplaced.
Also, focusing on the blog post in question, there's this rather important line which you seem to have overlooked:
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They [the NOPD] have also looted gun stores and pawn shops for all the small arms, supposedly to prevent "criminals" from doing so. But who knows their true intentions.
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"But who knows their true intentions" is not a declaration of mindless anti-police prejudice but an acknowledgment that their stated reasons for doing things -- like commandeering SUVs and loading them up with merchandise from wrecked Wal Marts -- may not be their actual intentions.
This scarcely sounds like an off-the-ranch bit of lefty wing nuttery.
Did you even RTFA ( <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFA> ) Max linked?
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