New Orleans Police Force Rebuilds From Within After Katrina Indictments

Still suffering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,  the New Orleans police department has it anything but easy as it tries to regain order among its officers as much as out on the city’s streets.

The subject of nine U.S. Department of Justice investigations, 13 New Orleans police officers have been indicted for various crimes, ranging from shootings to civil rights violations that happened in the days after Katrina.

Lt. Mike Field vividly remembers driving down flooded roads, and watching as residents quickly became angry and desperate after having their livelihoods washed away.

“People started turning on the police, accusing them of all sorts of things. Police did this, police did that,” he said.

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