New Orleans post-Katrina crime, didn't happen!

Michelle Malkin links to a report in the Seattle Times about all the rapes and murders that were alleged to have happened in the Superdome while the evacuees waited for state/local/federal help to arrive. Remember how breathlessly the media reported this "crimes" and decried the lack of response? Well it turns out it was just like any other week in New Orleans;

Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan said authorities have only confirmed four murders in the entire city in the aftermath of Katrina — making it a typical week in a city that anticipated more than 200 homicides this year.

After all the grandstanding by the Ted Koppel's of the world we now know this;

The vast majority of reported atrocities committed by evacuees — mass murders, rapes and beatings — have turned out to be false, or at least unsupported by any evidence, according to key military, law-enforcement, medical and civilian officials in positions to know.

"I think 99 percent of it is [expletive]," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who played a key role in security and humanitarian work inside the Dome. "Don't get me wrong — bad things happened. But I didn't see any killing and raping and cutting of throats or anything ... 99 percent of the people in the Dome were very well-behaved."

Dr. Louis Cataldie, the state Health and Human Services Department administrator overseeing the body-recovery operation, said his teams were inundated with false reports.

Someone should let CNN's Soledad O'Brien know;

"It is a sad thing to watch military veterans cry as they tell you the beheadings in Baghdad were less horrific than what they saw as 30,000 people marched from the Superdome through a shopping mall and onto buses to who knows where."