In the case of Katrina, people did help people...BUT...there was also people looting, robbing, raping and otherwise taking advantage of people. Those were zombies. Sometimes the public officials paid to help are the zombies.
"Henry Glover was shot by an unknown assailant on September 2, 2005, four days after the hurricane hit.
When Glover was taken to a makeshift police station the cops allegedly refused to treat him and left him to bleed to death. The charred remains of the 31-year-old father of four were found days later in a burnt-out car.
Police also stand accused of shooting and killing two African-American civilians in cold blood and wounding four others on Danziger Bridge, which connects two predominantly black neighborhoods in the city, on September 4.
The notorious incidents allegedly spawned elaborate cover-ups by the officers involved, including a meeting at a deserted former police station to agree on a story.
As legal proceedings progress, the cases repeatedly reopen old wounds. Five officers were charged in July over Glover's death. Another five have pleaded guilty over the Danziger shootings, while six more were indicted last month.
"They're such high-profile incidents in the consciousness of the city," NOPD sergeant James Young told AFP.
"Still it depends on whom you ask. Some people think the police do a great job despite the behavior of a couple of officers. Others want to lump everybody into one big group and say it's all NOPD."
New Orleans is on track for over 200 murders in 2010 -- the highest per capita homicide rate in the nation -- and the force desperately needs to win back trust if it wants witnesses to come forward and cases to get tried.
"There have been 840 homicides since the storm, and fewer than 50 convictions," Peter Scharf, a criminology expert at Tulane University, told AFP.
"It's pathetic, and so it's a good time to kill people in New Orleans. And of course witnesses won't come forward to testify in these cases because they're afraid that the drug dealers are going to whack them."
Mayor Mitch Landrieu laid bare the scale of the trust deficit when he sent a letter in May to US Attorney General Eric Holder calling for help and describing the NOPD as "one of the worst police departments in the country."
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http://www.alternet.org/katrina/26871/
Now in the case of family, I know several that are dealing with "zombies" now. Family that have outright said to friends of mine "if things get really bad we will just come to your place". These are people who buy expensive toys, have no savings, are in debt up to their eyeballs, and think food miraculously generates from fairy farts on styrofoam trays wrapped in shrinkwrap.
They could easily prepare, but don't. They have already said their intention is to continue to not prepare and burden someone else. That is their idea of disaster planning. ZOMBIES I tell yeah.
