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New Orleans leaders confident police won’t bolt (AP)

By newscrape.com in U.S. National on August 31st, 2008

New Orleans Police Officer Carolyn Dalton talks with a teen who was refusing to evacuate the city with her mother on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 in New Orleans. Officers were trying to keep order as residents fled ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Dalton, who stood by her post during Katrina, took her two sons to her mother's house in the days leading up to that storm. This past weekend, she made the journey again, leaving 15-year-old son Lace with a hug and some money, then returning to New Orleans for her 7 a.m. shift. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)AP - More than a week ago, at the first hint Gustav could be a threat to New Orleans, police Superintendent Warren Riley issued an unusual order

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