NOLA Criminal Justice Records Lost

New Orleans criminal justice officials are dispirited.

From NOLA.com:

With the flooding of the police department's evidence and property room in the basement of police headquarters, evidence and records in hundreds of criminal cases appeared to be irretrievably lost, police spokesman Marlon Defillo said.

Evidence in the most serious, pending cases, from murder to rape to robbery, was housed in the basement, Defillo said.

“We lost thousands of documents and untold evidence,” Defillo said. “We lost everything.”

I fear this means we'll see a flood of murderers, rapists, and thieves released to the streets to commit more crimes. Without evidence, cases can't be prosecuted.