Posted on 09/04/2005 11:42:54 PM PDT by lauriehelds
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 - A day after two police suicides and the abrupt resignations or desertions of up to 200 police officers, defiant city officials on Sunday began offering five-day vacations - and even trips to Las Vegas - to the police, firefighters and city emergency workers and their families.
The idea of paid vacations was raised by both Mayor C. Ray Nagin and senior police officials who said that their forces were exhausted and traumatized and that the arrival of the National Guard had made way for the officers to be relieved.
"I'm very concerned about individuals who have been here, particularly since the first few days, and have been through a lot of hardship," Mr. Nagin said in an interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
One complimentary lap dance for every shift served in NOLA during the crisis.
hehe! :D looks like a cd cover.
Bribing them to do the jobs they were hired to do in the first place? The hits just keep on coming. I am getting sick and tired of this crap.
That's sort of along the line that I was thinking. Nagin ships these guys off (w/the families?) to Vegas for a little R & R...I mean, is that it?
Chances are most of these guys aren't going to have any money to gamble with; heck, some of them may not have any money at all -- literally! What are they supposed to do? Just wander around LV? Stand around watching people playing Blackjack? All in clothes they left NO in, probably the only clothes they have?
So, on their way to LV, is Nagin going to give them (NOPD, NOFD, et al.) allowances to buy themselves new clothes, as well as to pay for little "diversions"?
Yeah, walking through Walmart in your uniform, pushing a big shopping cart through the aisles, and helping yourself to items for free can really take a toll on a police officer can't it?
When you thought you saw it all ping.
Maybe Nagin's supply lines have been rerouted through Vegas. Or maybe he thinks the Vegas mafia will protect him from the hitmen who are out to get him.
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Me too. He writes the songs that makes the whole world sing.
Why Las Vegas?
Nagin didn't even have the common decency to support the unscathed northern Mississippi casinos. He's such an idiot! But with great self-preservation skills, gotta hand him that. I think it's survival of the fittest between Nagin and Blanco. Which one will the democrats toss off the burning deck? My money's on Nagin, a photogenic, jive talking black man. And with the double bonus, if Blanco falls, Mary Landrieu's brother the Lt Gov., gets moved up the food chain early.
I would agree. I doubt if we will ever hear the full story of the raing and pillaging and murders that went on. I have heard some rumors and thats probaly all they will ever be.
Great leadership there....federal funds for levees would have just been the thing to fix all N.O. problems...
According the the NOPD chief, a little over 400 out of a force of over 1600 are unaccounted for at this time.
Animal Farm
That is absolute bs
unreal, he has to bribe people??
So, you've never been there either? People keep telling me that NO is a culture unto itself. And to quit expecting the "officials" to act like officials.
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