You slandered half the police force, I doubt that is what that officer was saying. 200 of 1500 have walked off. All of them who haven't are heroes. 200 is not "almost as many" as 1300, even if some of the missing also walked off (some could be drowned.)
My response to you is not based on a single post, you've been trashing a lot of people doing their job down there in hell. Enough.
Here is what I stated in my post on this thread in its entirety..."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 inability 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." Here is what the assistant superintendent of police said regarding the officers who walked off his force..."Mr. Riley said some of the officers who left the force "couldn't handle the pressure" and were "certainly not the people we need in this department." Sounds like he didn't think much of them either. Here is what one of his heroic remaining officers said of the men who walked off...""For all you cowards that are supposed to wear the badge," one officer said on Fox News, "are you truly - can you truly wear the badge, like our motto said?" Sounds like he's not impressed either. The assistant superintendent says he doesn't know how many officers he still has still working for him. The article says "at least 200" have walked off the job. Other reports put the numbers much higher. One officer said there are fewer than 800 police officers currently remaining on duty. By contrast, the fire department says they don't know of any of their members who have quit.
So let's sum this up...I have trashed Shepard Smith and the police officers that walked away from their duty.
Now please go find someone else to stalk.
I went to school at Tulane University in the mid-eighties. One of the first things we were told in freshman orientation was to always have the number for campus security on hand any time we went out on the town. That way we could call and have security come be a voice of reason if ever picked up by NOPD. There is a long tradition of NOPD picking up students and not letting them out unless paid off. NOPD figured that students were good targets since they are technically residents, thus not hurting the tourist trade, and reasonably well off, since they can afford to go to college.
Later, in the early nineties, I was stationed at what is now called NAS JRB New Orleans, down in Belle Chasse. I was fortunate enough to live in Marrero, on the West Bank in Jefferson Parish, rather that subjecting myself to the vagaries of the brutal, corrupt and vicious New Orleans city government.
Harry Lee, the eternal sherrif of Jeff Parish, is the image of the typical southern county sherrif, just writ large. He keeps the criminal element under control, mostly by restricting their activities to the bad parts of town where they can be kept an eye on. Jeff Parish runs on the good-old-boy system, and that can be kind of hard on military folks that are only temporary residents, but as long as you stayed out of trouble, Harry's boys would leave you alone.
I spoke to a neighbor that worked on the HR staff for the NOPD. They were given access to sealed juvenile criminal court records for the police officers.
Why? For assignments. They had to be sure to put officers with other members of their own gangs to prevent police officers from shooting each other in their own precincts.
I was never so happy to see a place getting smaller in my rear view mirror.