Auryn is a nurse at a New Orleans hospital, and has been keeping a LiveJournal blog of her experience. It’s interesting reading. But this really stuck out:

Also, our NOPD (cops) that we had stationed at the hospital, along with our National Guard boys (who were all teenagers and didn’t help out worth crap) decided to use their “marshal law” and boat to Walgreens to get us supplies. They got some food products and water (which we got a small bottle of gatoraide and sparkling water, that’s all. never saw anything else), but also went to Dillards and “used marshal law” to acquire expensive Polo shirts, jeans, Fendi purses, perfume, candles in which they traded (?) to family members on the floor. It didn’t help patients or staff. I was disgusted about this. Our own cops LOOTED. They are all crooked. That’s why I want out of Louisiana. You can’t trust anyone.