More bad news from New Orleans

that you are NOT hearing.

1. The NO police are out of control. Every home boy, good ole boy and in-law has a Police badge; a temporary badge and ultimate power. God help us all. Our patrol caught a 'badge' with a stolen car, called the PD and no one came. After an hour had to let him go. "I'm a cop, you have no right." Two hours later we get him driving around looking for trouble and stop him again. This time the NOPD show up and take the car and let the guy go. What a bunch of crap.
2. The poverty and disparity of the have's and have not's is glearing and obvious.
3. This city is a 1000 accidents wanting to happen. Tomorrow residents start coming back into the city and people are going to die. There is hardly an hospital open to treat people with 'ordinary' and major medical issues; electrical lines are still on the ground; there is illness and sickness all around us. It's an apocalypatic B movie gone bad.
4. This is a corrupt city. We see it all around us.

I may be leaving soon as my tour ends. I am conflicted. We are doing good work, but this is a huge mess that no politician, leader or company is going to fix easily. What a huge mess!