This is meant to be a general question about security issues - something that I was thinking about a few days ago. O'Reilly is talking about some of it today - though he's just saying this stuff should have happened in NO - no critical thought of the issues (you know ... Talking Points). I'm curious ...
If you have a mandatory evacuation, how can you ask or require people - police, firemen, etc. - to stay in the city? How can you get people to be security in a shelter like the Super Dome? How many people would be needed to be security for 25,000 and upwards of a 100K in the city? Are they armed? Do you ignore the danger their families and homes are in? Do you ask outsiders in to risk their lives, also?
Residents were supposed to take food and water for several days to the shelter. Should the city have had food and water there, too?
If there is food and water at the shelter, does that just give people something serious to fight over? Then, what about security? Can they be expected to face down 25,000 people that want food/water?
If you bring in a drop - and 25,000 people are waiting for food/water - and, assuming they don't swamp the helicopter or shoot it down - what's to keep them from killing each other to get to it? You pretty much have to show up with much more than all of them need and some guys with guns, I assume.
Would more people have actually died if we had dropped water and food?
Just pondering military and security issues - which I know absolutely nothing about.
Jen
If you have a mandatory evacuation, how can you ask or require people - police, firemen, etc. - to stay in the city? How can you get people to be security in a shelter like the Super Dome? How many people would be needed to be security for 25,000 and upwards of a 100K in the city? Are they armed? Do you ignore the danger their families and homes are in? Do you ask outsiders in to risk their lives, also?
Residents were supposed to take food and water for several days to the shelter. Should the city have had food and water there, too?
If there is food and water at the shelter, does that just give people something serious to fight over? Then, what about security? Can they be expected to face down 25,000 people that want food/water?
If you bring in a drop - and 25,000 people are waiting for food/water - and, assuming they don't swamp the helicopter or shoot it down - what's to keep them from killing each other to get to it? You pretty much have to show up with much more than all of them need and some guys with guns, I assume.
Would more people have actually died if we had dropped water and food?
Just pondering military and security issues - which I know absolutely nothing about.
Jen