Posted on 09/20/2005 9:49:12 AM PDT by Dane
His family was out of town. You wanna rephrase your snide comment?
As soon as Hillary becomes President she will pardon them as Carter did the draft dodgers years ago. Heck, she will even give them metals!
(Gag.)
Their families should have been out of town.
"One point is, when the city pays cops a poverty wage, don't be surprised when thugs get recruited and stiff like this happens. You get what you pay for. NOPD was vastly underpaid and acted like it."
I agree with you that we horribly under pay our police officers just about everywhere in this country and we ask a lot of them.
That doesn't justify abandoning your duty when you are needed.
If you're not going to do the job, don't take the job.
They took the job and accepted the responsibility.
It's quite possible that police departments could on average get and retain better people if they paid better. However, that does not excuse the actions of those who abandoned their duty when they were badly needed.
It would probably be a good investment to have a means and process to get families of emergency workers to safety in the event of an emergency so that they could concentrate on their duties.
He let down his family, his department and his city. He was an officer and his men looked to him for leadership and he bolted. Now that the storm has passed(please, God),I am rather certain that he feels very poorly about his decision. It will always weigh on his conscience.
I do, however, appreciate your sentiments. Many thanks for your thoughtful note.
Disgusting lack of honor to one's duty.
If you take the Kings shilling, you do the Kings bidding.
This guy took a oath to protect and defend the people of NOLA.
He should have gotten his faimly out and returned to do his duty.
Plain and simple !!
Why, did their employment contracts state that they could not resign during an emergency?
"I would rather my children and myself have an unemployed husband and father, rather than a heroic dead cop.
I know that is selfish, and that someone has to do the job. But my family comes first. I don't blame him."
If your ever on a airplane in trouble, (God forbid) and the pilot comes waltzing down the aisle, whistling with a parachute over his shoulder.... I hope you feel the same way Then!!!
"I know that is selfish, and that someone has to do the job. But my family comes first. I don't blame him."
I only blame him because he chose to become a police officer.
He accepted the responsibility that job entails, and then failed to fulfill his duty.
He shouldn't be a police officer.
Hmm. This is a little low, but certainly not the $16,000 I heard repeated during the height of the news coverage. I remember someone (Geraldo?) saying that new policemen made less than Wal-Mart workers.
The scumbag did not "resign" in accordance with some contractural procdure. He bugged out in the face of a crisis in which the lives and property of the citizens he'd taken an oath to protect were endangered. That's at the very least dereliction of duty, for which he should be fired "for cause" and barred from public employment and receipt of any form of government (federal, state, local) assistance. Whether it's criminal, equivalent to desertion in the face of the enemy under the UCMJ, is debatable and a question of the strange law of Louisiana. He should be publicly stripped of his badge and sidearm.
It wasn't snide, so No. I will not rephrase.
Frankly, given the performance of the governor and mayor, who continued to actively interfere with efforts to mitigate the disaster long after the feds and Red Cross tried to step in to help, I think police officers who deserted should be pretty low on the list of people to criticize. I mean, what the heck are troops really expected to do, when their commanding officers retreat to safe ground and simply refuse to address the ongoing battle?
Apparently his family was out.... he was just a deserter.
Any emergency responder who "resigns" during an emergency, for whatever reason, should be criminally prosecuted.
I agree, it's all about leadership. Still LT. Waller's, of what I would call, cowardice, shows that the LA leadership was more than lacking.
What, exactly, is (or was) the wage of the NOLA police officer?
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