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Law Officers, Overwhelmed, Are Quitting the Force
NYtimes ^
| September 4, 2005
| JOSEPH B. TREASTER
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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: incompetence; katrina; katrinafailures; leo; neworleans; nolapd
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To: lndrvr1972
Did not blame them. I have several friends I went to HS with that became cops. Some have served honorably though the years given the circumstances, yes, including lower pay.
Blame the DA's office that has allowed criminal's to prosper in NO.
Remember thought several of them have been jailed for crimes that exceed other criminal's. Blame too the lower standards as I mentioned before that help corruption.
81
posted on
09/03/2005 10:20:56 PM PDT
by
rineaux
(hardcore)
To: Jet Jaguar
"We can't fight every fire the way we did in the past and try to put it out," Superintendent Parent told a group of firefighters on Saturday morning at a promotion ceremony in the Algiers section of New Orleans, a dry area. "We've got to use our resources the best we can." WTF? They've still got people trapped in houses and they're having a promotion ceremony? No wonder New Orleans is in the shape it's in. I guess having a "promotion ceremony" in the midst of utter and total chaos is "using resources the best they can". These idiots have their priorities totally screwed up!
82
posted on
09/03/2005 10:21:34 PM PDT
by
2nd amendment mama
( www.2asisters.org • Self defense is a basic human right!)
To: Jet Jaguar
It seems that they didn't learn from Florida after the Cuban debris were allowed in with criminal records and hired by local police without any background information. Narcotics, bribes, murder were common-- "Scar Face" was made into a movie.
83
posted on
09/03/2005 10:27:37 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Proven scientific experiment: The NY Times flushes easily down the standard toilet.)
To: ravinson
You will get NO argument from me about the politician's. If you want something done, you leave a stack of money in a paper bad in a conference room. You get the permit,sale, etc.
I hope it will be cleaned up but I've been waiting for this since I can remember.
If you think it was bad then, wait till all these federal dollars start flowing in. The paper bags will turn into suit cases.
Yes, some cops are on the take and have been for a long time. Some, as I mentioned earlier are doing jail time for murder(protecting drug dealers). You just have to have a HS diploma or equivalent to enter the academy.
84
posted on
09/03/2005 10:27:59 PM PDT
by
rineaux
(hardcore)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
We are talking about New Orleans cops. The cop lovers may be familiar with the topic - as am I. My personal experience is that New Orleans cops turn right and wrong inside out.
Diva's Husband
To: NickatNite2003
Saw some on break at Wal-Mart looting with the other perps.
86
posted on
09/03/2005 10:30:07 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: rednek
Very Good News.
Cheered me up immensely.
87
posted on
09/03/2005 10:30:11 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
To: Sthitch
Detroit?
It is not skin color that determines character.
In the South, there are just as many poor whites, if not more, as poor blacks.And poor blacks are just as hungry to climb out of poverty with their morals intact as anyone else of any color.
Pollitically, and via the media, its a different tale.
88
posted on
09/03/2005 10:32:38 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
(Even if all else is wrong in your world,, find comfort in the fact that I am not in charge!)
To: LdSentinal
LOL...I think I know that guy.
89
posted on
09/03/2005 10:34:05 PM PDT
by
RTINSC
To: Wild Irish Rogue
no place to urinate and no place to defecate
Find the nearest discrete place, take a plastic bag along, and go to it.
Our vehicles can't get any gas. The water in the street is contaminated. My officers are walking around in wet shoes
Walk or run, get a boat, get some waders dumb ass..
One officer said, quote: 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." [and the looters have more weapons than the cops; why?}
Mr. Compass, you should be fired. Maybe you better run to your boss, the New Orleans Homeland Security Director, and see if he can get you off with good behavior. If not join the mayor as his disaster party and hide behind his butt. If not you had better get your Comp-ass out of town in a hurry.
Interesting that the article mentioned none of the firefighters deserted. If true kudos to them. It appears the men in red are tougher than the men in blue. Must be mostly Bush supporters I guess. After all Bush did win Louisiana a couple of times if memory serves me right.
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posted on
09/03/2005 10:36:04 PM PDT
by
gpapa
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To: TAdams8591
Two committed suicide? How utterly tragic. Well, at least THEY won't be suing to get their jobs back, with mental health medical expenses and the like, after this is all over. And that's a good thing (which _could_ be more-good; but the others won't have the decency to DO THE SAME).
91
posted on
09/03/2005 10:37:42 PM PDT
by
solitas
(So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
To: Texasforever
If they don't rebuild NO - where will the citizens of NO go? Think about it! (sarc)
92
posted on
09/03/2005 10:38:48 PM PDT
by
Anita1
To: patriciaruth
The Friday they are referring to was Sept. 2nd as I understand it.
93
posted on
09/03/2005 10:38:55 PM PDT
by
gpapa
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
What are you supposed to do when your mayor openly endorses looting, thereby allowing the fecal matter to hit the fan?
To: Diva Betsy Ross
I'm wondering why half the national guard didn't quit, desert, etc in the middle of the relief effort. Half the police walked away, many just stopped reporting for work - in the middle of the city's greatest need! What the hell kind of lousy organization and lack of commitment is that? And the article is written as though it's understandable and they deserve sympathy.
The city's police force quits, but the MSM is wondering why the early relief effort was flawed? And by the way, can someone tell me which part of the hurricane aftermath was so difficult the cops should quit en masse? It was the first day or two, so we're talking about people who walked out immediately.
Maybe I missed it, but I recall only one shooting of an officer. Cops were not drowning, they were not attacked by swarms of rioters, they were not being killed. I can see no reason they quit when no one else did. And anytime i saw the police chief on tv, he was exhibiting zero leadership. Like the mayor he was just yelling, "we need the feds to send buses!" What a total punk ass performance.
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posted on
09/03/2005 10:41:06 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: Anita1
If they don't rebuild NO - where will the citizens of NO go? Think about it! (sarc) Hell just find a big pool of quicksand and place them there. Same difference.
To: stylin19a
I saw that statement and I still don't understand it. It seems the reverse is true. If the FEDS were able to take it away, the locals could have blamed everything on the feds.
What am I missing ?
thanx Oh, thank God. I thought after reading that nonsense that I was the only one who had somehow been transported to Bizarro World.
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posted on
09/03/2005 10:42:22 PM PDT
by
filbert
(More filbert at http://www.medary.com)
To: rednek
I cant believe NYPD is sending 200 officers....they better go after those looting officers we saw.
To: U S Army EOD
We watched that in the office...the girl on WDSU started tearing up.
To: Rokke
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.You have no idea how many were crooked or not heroic, just anecdotal stuff you've read on the internet or saw on TV. Real easy to pound on your keyboard all kinds of slander and stereotypes. All we know is that they are down there in the middle of hell, while you sit in air conditioned comfort and pass judgement on them, just like the media does to President Bush. So shut up, you cowardly know-it-all slanderer.
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posted on
09/03/2005 10:47:20 PM PDT
by
Diddle E. Squat
(Gone, gone with the waves....)
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