Cause, he shure took off like a Hoser...
ehh...
Now if we could just get rid of Sister Senator ML, and Know Nothing Draw a Blanco, this state just might stand a chance.
Posted on 06/14/2005 7:48:21 PM PDT by wagglebee
The police chief of New Orleans today backed off plans to pay $15,000 to a Nation of Islam leader to give "sensitivity training" to the cities police officers after criticism from local religious leaders.
While Chief Eddie Compass initially announced the plan as he sat next to controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whose fiery sermons and pronouncements have been criticized as racist and anti-Semitic, the city's top cop is now distancing himself from the controversial leader.
Compass argued the Nation of Islam's security chief, Capt. Dennis Muhammad, had successfully implemented the program in other cities, including Buffalo, reported WWL-TV in New Orleans.
Now Compass says the training will go on but with different leadership.
Compass said he decided to implement a program after hearing complaints about police officers during his recent tour of the city's high-crime neighborhoods.
"The people in the community who are anti-police, who really need to hear our message, who [we] really need to build the bridges with -- members of the Nation of Islam have some type of relationship with these people," Compass said earlier.
The New Orleans Times Picayune reported Compass initiated regular community walks through low-income housing developments in order to listen to the people's concerns, reduce tensions and allow "mutual trust" to flourish.
But the training plan, to begin later this month, prompted complaints from officers to the Police Association of New Orleans, said the union's head, David Benelli.
"I think some of them are very angry, very vocal, my phone has been ringing off the hook," he told WWL.
Benelli emphasized, however, that the original provider, not the program itself, is the target of complaints.
"Being anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, the way they're perceived to treat females within the Nation of Islam," Benelli said.
Farrakhan, who has met with dictators such as Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, has called whites "blue-eyed devils" and Jews "boodsuckers."
Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad believed whites were created by an evil black scientist.
Catholic League President William Donohue wrote a letter yesterday to the seven members of the New Orleans City Council, requesting that they intervene to stop the program.
In his letter, Donohue said he was "appalled" by the plan, comparing it to "having David Duke advise public school teachers on how to conduct Black History Month events."
"Farrakhan is anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-gay," Donohue said. "He has mocked Catholicism, ridiculed the pope and insulted Catholics everywhere with his vitriolic comments."
Other religious leaders also voiced concern.
"Suppose the individual to be brought in had a wonderful track record in these very same pursuits of community engagement, but he just happened to work for the Ku Klux Klan," said Rabbi Edward Cohn of Temple Sinai. "I don't think that the people of New Orleans would be enthusiastic about welcoming that individual."
and only 2 meals a day.
I'd have to question this Police Chiefs judgement in any decisons tougher than whats for lunch after a fiasco like this.
You gotta love Donahue.
I'm actually kind of surprised that someone in the Nagin administration would do this, because Nagin's been a fairly decent Mayor
Little Zimbabwe coming to a port near you.
Hey Hey Ho Ho....Moohamheads have got to go
Yeah, and he lost the case too.
I seriously doubt Jordan speaks for anyone but himself anymore, especially considering the Mayor relies more and more on the European-American community for political support, especially since he crossed Landrieu.
It could be worse, he could be Dave Thomas, our illustrious School Board President (state's largest school system) who got drunk at Mardi Gras, drove the wrong way down a one way street, in the process hit a little 8 year old girl. Got out of his car, picked her up and gave her to the parents, and then ran off like a bat out of hell, going the wrong way on a one way street
"Little Zimbabwe coming to a port near you."
One thing that New Orleans is never gonna be is "Little Zimbabwe" Things are improving in New Orleans just as they have been improving in Atlanta and Jackson. (and Richmond for that matter)
New Orleans is still the best thing Louisiana has to offer, at least in my opinion.
He Does not...
Get out of here.. LoL...
Now if we could just get rid of Sister Senator ML, and Know Nothing Draw a Blanco, this state just might stand a chance.
Well, yea. They are the same people.
I recently moved back to Jefforson Parish and I am amazed how little things have changed here in New Orleans politics. Blanco is a bluthering idiot imo. Lil Moon Jr (Mary Landrieu) needs to be sent packing as well, its time she stopped winning elections on her daddys name.
The reason people in the community are so against the NOPD is because well
When you compare our cops here (Mobile) to the ones in New Orleans, they look like boy scouts, which really speaks to how bad the NOPD is.
Back 10 years ago I think, there was this woman who filed a police brutality claim. The next day, the officer who she filed the complaint against got a hold of it, and hired some thug to kill her in her neighborhood
Then of course that thing they had with Break-Tag stations (I don't even know what the hell those are, I just know they busted something like 200 cops on that)
This stuff just makes me sick. All the sensitivity to responding to the feelings of the citizens in "high crime" areas and their negative attudes towards police. Maybe the two go hand in hand. To have police more sensitized to the various ethnicities and religious groups is irrelevant. Should the police not arrest a muslim who shoots a christian because he disrespected his Koran? Do police need to know how people feel or should they be objective, distance themselves from issues, and simply keep the neighborhoods safe.Lets just have cops be cops. thats what they get paid for.
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