. >> people were shot and killed by the new orleans police department. >> ...eleven civilians were shot by new orleans police officers... >> looting and other lawlessness will not be tolerated. >> ...as rumors circulated about a declaration of martial law. >> i've already called for martial law in the city of new orleans. >> i heard rumors that martial law was in place, and then i heard rumors that no, it was not. >> i never declared martial law. >> did the police believe they could suspend their own rules? >> does he expect us to, rank and file, go through the streets, you know, shooting looters? >> new evidence shows that an order was given authorizing officers to shoot looters. >> one of the most troubled police departments in the history of north america. the nopd reverts back to what the existing culture has always been. >> that's the guy? >> that's the one that beat me. >> tonight, the story of one of those killings... >> what happened here wound up setting this chain of events in motion that has turned the new orleans police department upside down. >> ...and questions about a cov

we're going to be partaking in this with the new orleans police department and the manchester police department in the u.k. the justice department is basically funding mess with the intention of creating model blueprints for police leaders around the country. i think it is a tremendous opportunity for the san francisco police to permit to be at the cutting edge in the development of personnel training. that is a year and a half program. at the end of the process of those two particular projects real been selected, i think we're going to have an incredibly -- an incredible opportunity to move forward with training at the san francisco police department. it is very exciting. president marshall: if i may, can i sidebar? the meeting with the international plan -- the international chief of police? i've never been to an international meeting, but having been to several national ones, it was really great being in the room with other chiefs of police to get sort of a national perspective on things. if you could when you come back just give us what you have seen in trends. i know it was grea

. >> people were shot and killed by the new orleans police department. >> ...six controversial cases... >> bodies just don't burn up like that. >> the way it was destroyed was telling a story. >> did the police use necessary force? >> people have no idea what this was like. >> or were they out of control? >> how do you take back a city? >> frontline, pro publica, and the times-picayune investigate "law and disorder." >> there's much more on frontline's website. watch nearly 100 programs from our archive. explore interactive timelines and maps, and follow on-going frontline investigations. then, explore more on the norfolk four case. >> i certainly thought he was guilty. >> experts explain how easy it is to get a false confession. >> i'm asking you a question: are you deaf? >> how it trumps all other evidence, and why most interrogation techniques are legal. and then, join the discussion at pbs.org. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d.

police department. i think it's fair to say that new orleans has, what, the highest murder rate in the country. it has had a police department for many years that many people think has been very corrupt and very abusive. but what you did is you asked the justice department to investigate your own police department and to tell you how to restructure it and rebuild it. i guess i would ask you, how has it been going and been received in new orleans? and equally important, how has it been received by the police department? >> well, i'd like to just a answer that historically, if you will. because i wouldn't have been able to do that without the support of the people of new orleans. four years ago when i ran for mayor, i lost. i try to forget that but it's hard to do that. what most people don't know i ran 16 years ago and i lost, worse. so i finally won. [laughter] >> but the reason that i won was because the people of new orleans decided that they had kind of gotten tired of fighting about things that didn't matter. not they weren't matter but they didn't matter. for example, race in america, folks