[battlegearboat]

They they couldn't pass the swim test.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Bad Cop, No More Donuts.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

Please, where are the boot licking "police are never wrong" Freepers now?

[Sthitch]

"When I have officers committing suicide," Mr. Compass said, "I think we've reached a point when I don't know what more it's going to take to get the attention of those in control of the response."

Hmm, did CompAss ever think that he might be one of those people in control of the response? Nah, its all Bush's fault.

[Peach]

"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.

[cyborg]

Ah yes the Slimes always reporting the good news.

[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. 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.

[NonValueAdded]

And yet this is Bush's fault. Funny, but in the front page story in the Washington Post here, the Louisiana governor says she still has control over the NG and someone in the EOC has leaked that the Feds are trying to take command. Let that sink in. Sept 2, days after the disaster the Feds are trying to take command where no command is being exercised by the [deleted] in charge who does nothing but complain.

[rwilson99]

Thank God these losers weren't in NY during 9/11.

The cops who ditched their uniforms and kept their police cars should be put in jail.

[concerned about politics]

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.

I feel sorry for them. They had to do everything. There was no leadership, and no one was doing anything. The people were looking to them and them alone until Bush took over. Now that the Feds are in control, these guys can just flip NO the bird for the way they were used.
I guess the Governor and the mayor felt the hurricane was just a little "nuisance" or just something that should be considered a "law enforcement problem."
I'll bet they're glad Bush took over that mess. If he hadn't, people would still be dying down there, and the governor would be still be screaming " It was Gore who really won the 2000 election!"

[cwb]

This chaos was a result of the passive attitude that both the governor and mayor took immediately after the hurricane passed. How can you expect your cops to enforce any law and order when you have the state's own Attorney General practically justifying the looting that occured?

And Blanco is more responsible, as she put politics above protect and serve. She just wouldn't let her law enforcement officials (including the Guard) be aggressive for fear they might kill these same "poor, black people" whose actions they were excusing for days. She could forget about the black vote. Now, she can forget about any vote.

[the invisib1e hand]

nothing like commitment, and selfless, civic minded public service.

[Jonx6]

ping

[rednek]

I just left a baseball game in OKC and sat in front of an FBI agent and talked with him during the game. According to him, NO police dept is authorized 2100 officers. Before the storm, normal attrition had reduced the force to 1800 active officers on duty. He stated there are now less than 800 NOPD officers (1000+ have quit). Many have just walked off the job and disappeared. Others have joined the street gangs. Federal law enforcement is heavily involved and many of the NOPD will be in jail when it is all over. Federal SWAT teams have been operating for several days and "taking out the trash". He says there is much going on behind the scenes that most people will never know about, but the house cleaning has been underway for several days and progress has been substantial.

It will be interesting to see what the MSM picks up and how they report this (if they ever do)

regards - red

[LdSentinal]

"I'm leaving the New Orleans police force to loot for shoes in Wal-Mart."

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" "If I put you out on the street and made you get into gun battles all day with no place to urinate and no place to defecate,
I don't think you would be too happy either," Mr. Compass said in an interview.
"Our vehicles can't get any gas. The water in the street is contaminated.
My officers are walking around in wet shoes."

A full bladder and wet shoes .... Unbelievable.

[Crooked Constituent]

Wouldn't you quit if Gavin was your boss?

[benjaminjjones]

How about those two big-butted female ones that were filmed looting?

[adorno]

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.

Have Nagin and Blanco committed suicide yet? Or at least handed in their resignations or walked away from their jobs?

[XHogPilot]

Later, same article:
A Baton Rouge police officer said he had a friend on the New Orleans force who told him he threw his badge out a car window in disgust just after fleeing the city into neighboring Jefferson Parish as the hurricane approached.

The rats were jumping ship before the hurricane passed - Even before the flood!

"They were doing everything to get out of New Orleans," he said. "They didn't have the resources to do the job, or a plan, so they left."