FEMA Director Mike Brown said on CNN today that the request from the state of Louisiana for assistance at the New Orleans convetion center came this afternoon. He said they are responding and that trucks are on the way.
The scum of America will always behave like scum.
First appearance I have seen of the New Orleans Police Chief.
Hey Chief, have you considered shooting the criminals? ....or are you afraid of the political backlash?
Why would they have to wait for a go-ahead order from the mayor to walk to a dry area?
>Compass said he sent eight eleven-man teams into the convention center. But as soon as the first team arrived, he said, "they were beaten back within 30 feet of the entrance."
Pussies
There is a Glock solution to that problem.
Congress needs to lift Posse Comitatus prohibition in this case. In fact, I think Congress is the only one who can under Article II. Maybe if they can pass the spending bill tmo, then they can allow the military to move in and take control of New Orleans.
Yeah, I think the gangs need to be taken out. Shoot to kill. That, unfortunately, is the only way to stop this.
< / snickers> . . . < / huge guffaws> . . . < / stifled laughing>
The Democrats have created a cradle to grave constituency largely incapable of self-resilience and self-reliance.
When citizens are disarmed and order breaks down, the wicked will prey on the helpless.
Send 11 Texas Rangers in there. They'll take care of things.
"The New Orleans police chief says 15-thousand people are trapped in the city's convention center. And he says some are being raped and beaten"
"Southern Hospitality"?
NOPD aims to become friendlier force
'Arrest mode' hasn't worked, Police Chief Eddie Compass says
Friday, June 10, 2005
By Trymaine D. Lee
Staff writer
For the past decade, Police Chief Eddie Compass said New Orleans police have tried to get a handle on crime by operating in what Compass calls "arrest mode": focusing on arresting criminals rather than building relationships with residents who live daily with murders and drug deals.
But as violent crime, including murders, has continued to rise, it's become apparent that this approach hasn't worked well, he said.
So things are about to change. As part of a new initiative developed by Compass and his command staff, current crime-fighting techniques they say have resulted in more headaches for citizens than hard time for criminals soon will be history.
"We've been in arrest mode for 10 years, and the murder rate hasn't changed," Compass said Thursday. There have been 13 more murders so far this year than in the same time period in 2004.
"We're changing the whole mantra of the Police Department," he said. "Service will now be our top priority."
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The decision to make the Police Department a more resident-friendly force comes amid a spate of controversial police shootings and a recent block party that some residents said was broken up by police with excessive force.
Police need to be more courteous and respectful and begin to develop better relations with the community, Goyeneche said.
"In light of everything that has happened over the past several months, there is some merit in the need for more emphasis within the Police Department on how to deal with the public," he said.
As part of the new initiative, police have implemented a new community liaison post, held by 24-year veteran officer Roland Doucette. Doucette's primary role will be to operate at the grassroots level of the community, engaging in dialogue with residents, noting their concerns and presenting those concerns to the command staff.
Community leader Deborah Davenport, whose husband, Bruce Davenport, is pastor at St. John No. 5 Church near the St. Bernard housing development, said she hopes the police chief is serious about the changes, emphasizing that communication is key to mending the relationship between the cops and the community.
"Sometimes the community doesn't understand policing and the police don't understand the community," Davenport said. "So these changes do need to happen with both the police and the residents together, where they can appreciate each other and the roles they both play."
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Another change will come Sunday, when officers must begin wearing standard uniforms instead of paramilitary-type outfits -- though these still will be worn by SWAT officers conducting raids or sweeps.
Police said that when residents saw the officers dressed in the military-styled tactical uniforms, they saw an "occupying military presence" rather than friendly forces.
Police also said folks in the community often have so much disdain and distrust of the Police Department that they'd rather take their chances with the killers in the street than give information to the cops.
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June 15, 2005
New Orleans Police to be trained in sensitivity by Nation of Islam
From the BayouBuzz...
The security chief for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been hired to provide sensitivity training for the NOPD. Captain Dennis Muhammad has conducted sensitivity training in other cities such as Buffalo and will be paid $15,000 for his services, which NOPD Chief Eddie Compass says are needed in New Orleans. Compass says there are people in New Orleans who have complained about police treatment and are “anti police.” Compass believes that the “members of the Nation of Islam have some type of relationship with these people.”
However, what about those in the community and on the NOPD who are not members of the Nation of Islam? David Benelli of the Police Association of New Orleans says his phone has “been ringing off the hook” with members upset about the hiring of someone with ties to the Nation of Islam. The NOPD is 45% white, while the city is about 30% non-black, so there is a large number of people who might feel insulted by this decision. However, not only should whites be outraged about the selection of this Nation of Islam leader to conduct sensitivity training, but also all African-Americans in the community who are of the Catholic or Jewish faiths.
At the press conference announcing the training, a rabbi and priest expressed concern about Muhammad’s selection. Such concern is more than justified considering the history of Muhammad’s boss, Louis Farrakhan. Here are just a few of the Nation of Islam’s beliefs, as well as some of Farrakhan’s disturbing statements:
Whites are “blue eyed devils.”
Jews are “bloodsuckers”
“Hitler was a very great man.”
Jews controlled the slave trade and currently control the government
Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad believed that whites were created by an evil Black scientist and that there will be “The Great Decisive Battle in the Sky” when a space ship will kill all white people by bombing the earth
Muhammad believed that white people should relocate to Europe and that racial integration was wrong
In addition, Farrakhan has met with dictators in Sudan, Libya and Iraq, before the war, and praised their governments while denouncing the United States. Leaders in the Nation of Islam have also made very inflammatory anti-Catholic statements. In a November 1993 speech at Kean College in New Jersey, Farrakhan’s chief spokesman Khallid Muhammad said, “T]he old no-good Pope-you know that cracker, somebody need to raise that dress up and see what´s really under there. Jesus was right; you´re nothing but liars. The book of Revelations is right; you´re from the Synagogue of Satan.”
Due to public outcry, the New Orleans Police Chief reversed himself and will conduct sensitivity training under other leadership. From WND, with thanks to wwrwtw.
...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...
Good lord.
What animals.
And they want to send these people to us in the Houston area.
Great.