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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.

You ever seen the New Orleans Police Department pay scales? The highest ranked patrol office, a Police Officer level 4, has a base pay of $32,500. That is $4000 less than a Kansas City Police probationary office makes. Once off probation, a KCPD officer with one year experience's base salary is $38,304 or slightly less than a New Orleans Police Lieutenant. I have a friend, a retired Chicago Police officer, who makes more in retirement pay than a New Orleans police captain. His son, a CPD major crimes detective, makes well over twice what a New Orleans sergeant makes. You do not attract the best and brightest to police work with salaries like that. And the fact that they had problems filling the ranks isn't surprising at all.