[wagglebee]

He makes an excellent point here.

[ncountylee]

Stolen NO cop cars in Houston, not a great endorsement of the NOPD.

[ncountylee]

Any police arrested yet in NO?

[spinestein]

[Blame belongs on New Orleans criminals -- and cops]



But I repeat myself.

[RichInOC]

Blame belongs on New Orleans criminals -- and cops

"...but I repeat myself."

Seriously, I have several suggestions for other words Eddie Compass could have used, but none that would have made it past CBS Program Practices.

[johnny7]

I don't see ANY federal 'blame' in what happened to NOLA.

[Enterprise]

It's tragic that Pelosi didn't personally go to New Orleans. She would have scared off the water moccasins.

[mc6809e]

Purist libertarians, for whom central government is the fount of all evil, also were spinning a predictable narrative. Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob Hornberger, for example, cited "the 70-year-old New Deal-Great Society" as the root cause of the destruction.

And the libertarians are right. Just how is it that large criminal class can sustain itself without New Deal/Great Society help?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Yet the aftermath of the storm seems to have unleashed a pent-up fury among paint-by-numbers Bush-haters.

The left practices "the best defense is a good offense". When they are uncovered, or in anticipation of being uncovered as in this case, they immediately divert attention from themselves to the opposition. That is always Bush and the Republicans. The MSM keeps the drum beat going hoping to sustain the lie. By the time the truth is known they ignore it and let the lingering accusations remain.

This time it will backfire as there are alternative sources of information putting the pressure on the MSM to perform or die. People are getting tired of the politics practiced my the minority.

[stylin19a]

It is little secret that New Orleans has a large and nasty criminal class

I'm guessing it's "had", not "has". ( 'cept for the Rats in power )

[msnimje]

I think it was Col. David Hunt who said there were 3000 criminals in NO the days after Katrina and MANY were from out of state. He also said that lots of the cops were BOUGHT OFF as they caught people engaged in criminal activity.
I think that department needs a clean sweep from the top to bottom and a fresh start.

[Itzlzha]

*PING*

Maybe Cathy and MineralMan can refute this pack of lies...after all, there ARE NO BAD COPS....right?

The city does have its share of honest, dedicated cops, by now thoroughly exhausted. But it also has a higher portion of bad apples than most cities. Just how much higher was suggested by a segment of CBS's "60 Minutes," aired Sunday, September 11. During the course of the flood, New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass admitted that roughly a third of city's police force simply had walked off the job. And some of those who stayed joined the looters. In a program aired over a week earlier on MSNBC, Martin Savidge, reporting from a Wal-Mart in the process of being looted, interviewed police officers claiming to be arresting suspects, even as they were loading their own shopping carts with dry goods. How's that for abdication - and chutzpah?

[RasterMaster]

Some of the criminals include Mayor Noggin, Guvna Blanko and Sen. Landreau.

[WasDougsLamb]

............and Nagin

[timestax]

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