Posted on 09/03/2005 9:26:08 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3 - Reeling from the chaos of this overwhelmed city, at least 200 New Orleans police officers have walked away from their jobs and two have committed suicide, police officials said Saturday.
Some officers officially told their superiors they were leaving, police officials said. Others worked for a while and then stopped showing up. Still others, for reasons not always clear, never made it in after the storm.
The absences come during a period of extraordinary stress for the New Orleans Police Department. For nearly a week, many of its 1,500 members have had to work around the clock, trying to cope with flooding, an overwhelming crush of refugees, looters and occasional snipers.
P. Edwin Compass III, the superintendent of police, said most of his officers were staying at their posts. But in an unusual note of sympathy for a top police official, he said it was understandable that many were frustrated. He said morale was "not very good" after nearly a week of deprivation and danger.
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They they couldn't pass the swim test.
Bad Cop, No More Donuts.
They they = They knew
Please, where are the boot licking "police are never wrong" Freepers now?
Dang, I can't type on this new notebook.
Hmm, did CompAss ever think that he might be one of those people in control of the response? Nah, its all Bush's fault.
"Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.
Ah yes the Slimes always reporting the good news.
OUCH!!! LOL
Don't worry, you'll get used to the keyboard. It took me about 2 weeks to fully adjust, but after that, I can't use a regular desktop keyboard anymore.
I guess the military would like to quit and go home too. The more I see of the real New Orleans the more I am against rebuilding it.
It must have been hell getting it into that old Olympus.
Try the keyboard instead.../sarc
Any "police are never wrong" mantra always comes with a caveat that it does not apply to the New Orleans PD.
They couldn't do their jobs.
Some of the police officers in New Orleans have been heroic. Truly incredible. But it appears almost as many were a disgrace to law enforcement. And despite all of them serving under obviously terrible leadership there is NO excuse for the scenes of those two "police" officers looting Walmart. When all is said and done, the inablity of the New Orleans police department to maintain a cohesive command structure in the earliest stages of this disaster will explain a lot of the mess we've seen over the last few days.
They might not be wrong in *this* case. The first presumption is that the ones who quit are slackers and irresponsible, but I have to wonder whether they might have actually quit because they couldn't stand to stay and watch the city government (the Mayor, and the police brass) screw the pooch so badly. How many quit with a resignation letter that said, "I'm not going to work for you corrupt f***-ups any longer?"
I heard 2/3rds of the NOPD were "no-shows" after
Katrina, whether they drowned or, just left, has yet
to be determined on individual basises.
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