“I thought it came out in Katrina that there were paychecks going out to non-police officers to inflate the numbers so that citizens (read crooks) didn’t know about dwindling police force numbers “
You could be right, but I didn’t understand what you meant by
“citizens (read crooks).” How are citizens the crooks in this scenario? Seems like the pols who arranged this petty thievery and non-police officers who took the money are the crooks. The citizens are merely the patsies who have to pony up for these shenanigans.
I don’t mean that all of the civilians were crooks, I’m trying to recall city officials’ excuse (basically that they didn’t tell the public because then the crooks would also know).