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Criminal Procedure 3700 Law And Disorder Research Paper

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April Smolkowicz
Professor Hicks
Criminal Procedure 3700
June 14, 2015
Law and Disorder
Assignment #2
A story about the New Orleans Police Department, (NOPD) after Hurricane Katrina, and their unethical use of lethal force against citizens. An investigative look into the NOPD cover-up, conflicting information, questionable police reports and activities, knowingly altering, concealing and conspiring. At one point the city was covered in water, no electricity, no radio for back-up, no way of communication unprepared for the storm that hit, they lost command and complete control of the police department. Suspicious deaths, premeditated homicide? In the midst of all the confusion after Katrina at one point rumors of Martial Law were in place,

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