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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"On most of the video I saw of the N.O. cops they were 300+lbs, way overweight. They couldn't chase anything."
That wasn't the cops, that was the heifers whining about starving to death after two days with no food.
Anti-corrupt-police-force, Anti-Democrat Sarcasm Torpedo, ARMED. FIRE!!
He's as good as admitting publically that they're full of sh*t.
Prayers for ALL!
Gosh...hard to believe they wouldn't be more loyal to Greyhound Ray......
(snip)
So maybe the corruption situation will evolve and dry up over the next two years.
Hmm, will the affect the flow of Narcotics into the US?
Loss of a major port with corrupt law enforcement?
Cops ran away - again. Like L.A. CACA riots. This time it was no "tactical retreat".
Cops have no obligation to protect and serve us. At best, they number 1 cop per 1,500 residents. Usually it is more like 1/3,500, given the 20-30 million criminal alien Mexicans/OTMs/MS-13s/ChiCom/Retro-Soviet/Pan-Islam with Qaeda sleepers swarming across our once sovereign ratified Constitutional Republic.
The Honor System in the future is unlikely, as we have seen wonton predation and likely Qaeda antics in N.O. and elsewhere during this showing of Kat on a Hot Skin Roof.
these fine upstanding police officers quit?
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Two committed suicide? How utterly tragic.
The NO police? LOL
This is the very most fundamental aspect of being a leader, but it's something apparently unknown to the mayor of New Orleans or the governor Louisiana, or the people who elected them, A shame on everyone involved in this sorry mess!
More profitable to loot fulltime.
Nothing effects the flow of narcotics into America. Its a demand side thing.
Is this the NOPD Chief--Nomora L. Compass?
"We have to use our own shotguns," said the patrolman, who did not want to be identified by name. "This isn't theirs; this is my personal gun."
AMEN!
Hey, Do not blame the NOPD they are the most underpaid overworked agency in the US. I met many of them at the Law Enforcement Memorial in DC a couple of years ago. The criminals in their city are treated better than those who protect and serve. This is what happens when you hire a Chief who has not experiance on the street to run a large police force. They are hardworking men and women. They just have crap for bosses.
Roger that.....
I wonder if their water crossings result in picking up leaches, or if they tumble into tiger pits with shit dipped punji sticks in the bottom, or come across some poor captured American corpse that had been nailed to a tree as a "welcome wagon" entry sign to their neighborhood?
This bitching and crying by the NO police, makes me want to puke. Those men have become women....probably, because most are.
Semper Fi
When were New Orleans cops not horrendously corrupt? I first visited the city in 1981 and their horrible reputation was well known then. Bribery is a way of life in New Orleans and Louisiana and has been for many decades. Tax dollars they could have spent on maintaining and improving the levees lined the pockets of politicians and their criminal cronies, and the house of cards has finally collapsed.
Thanks for that insight. One more indictment of the negative effects of poor leadership at the local level.
Perhaps those are the ones caught on tape walking out of store-fronts with loot in their hands. Some of the people I saw on tape, looked like officers.
This is a tough situation. Perhaps those officers felt a family calling that they couldn't ignore. Perhaps some didn't sign on for this type of service.
Whatever, the department is probably better off without them.
This type of situatin will separate the good from the bad. No doubt about it.
because these men had "character"---wearing a badge does not give anyone that--you have it or not---God Bless those officers and the citizens they SERVE AND PROTECT
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