The Black Vault

Concerns regarding looting in New York started days ago before Hurricane Sandy even hit the lower tip of Manhattan. A report coming in from NY Scanner, a tweeter who monitors New York City's public safety channel, stated that NYPD officers have been dispatched to the 60th precinct to help out with mobs who are looting storefronts:

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Many Looters Arrested

Along Broadway between 96th and 106th Streets more than a dozen stores were looted, and at least 30 people were arrested and taken to the West 100th Street stationhouse.

A police officer at the Alexander Avenue station in the South Bronx said of the looting, "they hit every store in the 40-block area."

By 1 a.m., 70 people were under arrest at the West 100th Street station on looting charges, and the stationhouse began to look like a department store, with looted items-- appliances, leather chairs, clothing--stacked up in the muster rooms.

The police said that as of 1 a.m. there had been 309 arrests throughout the city, nearly all for looting.
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A riot in one jail with a possible hostage situation. People trapped in elevators and subways. Fires and alarms all over the city. Sounds like chaos and pandemonium to me.

A good post. People need to be made aware of this sort of thing. The stress of such caused many LE in Orleans to lose it........Hope that doesn't happen this time.

Cole