New Orleans police to be pulled off streets

Seattle Times ^ | September 5, 2005 | Chris Adams, Martin Merzer and Susannah A. Nesmith

[gridlock]

There are still residents refusing to evacuate even at this late date. Unbelievable! It may be politically incorrect to say this, but when the hell is the media going to start blaming the stubborn citizens who refused to evacuate for all this chaos?

As long as people ferry these folks food, water and medicine, they will never leave. I know it sounds harsh, but the only way to get them out is to starve them out. But nobody is going to want to take the political responsibility for denying anything to the residents of New Orleans, so this will not be allowed to happen.

So you are going to have stubborn morons staying in their homes, getting twice daily deliveries of hot meals by helicopter and bitching that there isn't enough salt in the paella. And you'll probably have a CNN camera right there to record their complaints.

[poobear]

From some reports, many of the police were already AWOL, simply displaced or refused to show up for duty. What a mess. -

[sgtbono2002]

You aint seen nothing yet: Wait until all those cops who walked off the job come back and are put back on duty like they never left.

[johnny7]

HA! Why would you be 'paranoid' of a man who calls another man... 'darlin”?

[Coldwater Creek]

If people refuse to leave, they should be handed a written notice that there will be no support for them, including water or food and medical services. Take down their name and closes relative not in NO and make them sign it.

[mewzilla]

Adam Housley on FNC a little while ago was reporting that he's talked to a number of folks who actually could have evacuated and chose not to. Sigh.

[Coldwater Creek]

Oh! he sounds just like the Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, and I would be the farm that there are tens of hundreds just like him. Girly men for sure.

[Larry Lucido]

But, but, wouldn't that mean that the feds weren't invited in from the very beginning? No, that can't be true, otherwise it can't be Bush's fault.

[kittymyrib]

Blanko's performance in this crisis foreshadows what Hillary's would be, were she president. These women are so insecure, that they would rather see everyone around them die than to admit their mistakes. I have seen this character flaw in the workplace, but in life-and-death situations the consequences are tragic.

[Dustbunny]

The Mayor of N.O. and Govenor of LA are mental midgets that should NEVER have been elected to public office.

[gridlock]

If people refuse to leave, they should be handed a written notice that there will be no support for them, including water or food and medical services. Take down their name and closes relative not in NO and make them sign it.

A good idea that will never happen. If these people are denied anything, they will be on the TV 24/7 about how President Bush! is denying them this or that. It is simply not poitically feasible for anybody to deny these folks anything, because they will be stand-ins in the minds of the people for the poor innocents who perished.

[Patriot from Philly]

Yes, we've gone from the grieving mother to the grieving mayor. Let's hide all his outrageous quotes and try to make this incompetent fool into a hero.

Mission impossible for CNN.

Notice they are moving to the cajun general as the face of recovery. Smart move.

[Right_in_Virginia]

On the seventh day, the mayor of New Orleans said he would surrender control of his shattered city to federal and state officials,

So, Nagin's the one who's been in charge for the past week. Good to know.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I can't help but contrast this with New York City of 9/11/01. Cops and firefighters there hung in there with no rest...ON AND ON AND ON.

It makes you wonder about whether some in New Orleans EVER had the "right stuff."

[spectre]

And gonna pull the cops and the firemen out? Probably most of them just need a good meal and a night's rest, followed by a swift return to honorable duty.

I pray they keep these fine people on the payroll.

Essentially, they are all NOW without jobs.

sw

[uncbob]

People have seen such horrific things in war. In Vietnam, During WWII and managed to live with those memories. I'm very suspicious about these suicides.

I am not

These guys probaly had their house ruined their familiy scattered and under strain trying to contain animals for over a week
Vets in wars at least had a home and family support sysytem to come home to

[twigs]

I suspect that you're right too. Too much corruption. These police officers aren't very well trained and prepared to do their job, are they? FWIW, I just heard this morning that the governor still hasn't declared a state of emergency for LA.

[Caipirabob]

People try to say that the 9/11 heroics were possible because the attack came and went, and the city was still there. Hurricane Katrina came and the city was devastated and under water so the police couldn't do their job.

I'd like to point out that New Yorkers didn't know if this was THE ATTACK or JUST THE BEGINNING. There may have been another 20 attacks coming, bio-weapons or whatever. All through this THEY STILL BEHAVED LIKE COURAGEOUS, RATIONAL HUMAN BEINGS.

You know, the people I know from New York are among the best people I know in the world. I'm from Tennessee originally, so that's a major concession.

This being said, I know there were similar heroics and sacrifice made in NOLA, but I'm left feeling disgusted by their animalistic behavior rather than inspired by their courage.

There's no other way to put it. Where I felt hope from New York I feel nothing but shame from NOLA.

I pray for those who did live up to our hopes and ideals. I pray for their recovery. Yet there is a small percentage of people in NOLA who have damaged thier name and image for all time. I can't wish any worse upon them than what happened, nor would I wish this upon them to begin with. Still, neither am I compelled to support or subsidize such a grand failure such as the culture that NOLA has bred.

Best that the water washes all of it away.

Let us salvage the people that we can and help them build a new and better world for themselves.

Leave the rats to the ruin.

[uncbob]

I can't help but contrast this with New York City of 9/11/01. Cops and firefighters there hung in there with no rest...ON AND ON AND ON.

And had homes on LI with families to come home to
What would it have been like if they knew their homes were destroyed ( I HIGHLY doubt any of the NYC police lived where the damage was )and families evacuated to who knows where
In addition they weren't fighting off the dregs of society all week long. Everybody was cooperating

Different situations

[twigs]

Utter claptrap. Woman are not insecure as a gender. There are good and bad, just like men. I can't stand Hillary, but I don't think she is an incompetent leader. She is corrupt and she's a hard-core socialist. That she is competent makes her all the more dangerous.