Just saying....before every post-Katrina death, rape and robbery in New Orleans is blamed on ANYONE at any level of government.

From a CNN report on August 18, 2005. I think the headline should win an award for understatement of the year.

Murder Rate Up In The Big Easy

The city's murder rate is still far lower than a decade ago, when New Orleans was the country's murder capital. But in recent years, the city's homicide rate has climbed again to nearly 10 times the national average.

This city was the Wild West even before the hurricane, it's just no one seemed to care.