Pass it around, we're gonna need it....
Chief Moose, there's a blast from the past.
I doubt that even New Orleans would hire such an incompetent, lying scumbag.
Wow... Hundreds of phantom cops... Top cop forced to resign... This is unreal.
I also recall several movies tv shows etc. about the guys from Seatle who caught Ted Bundy. Actually it was a Florida cop who caught him and Florida which executed him.
I noted in his speech. Commish Compass said he consulted "men of God". Has he not heard there is a seperation of church and state? Wow, wouldn't you love to hear this guys "confession" if you were a priest in New Orleans. Bet it was juicy, to say the least.
Pass it around, we're gonna need it....
N.O. top cop Compass resigns
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breaking/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_localbreakingnews/archives/2005_09.html#083164
NOPD says 249 officers were AWOL after Katrina
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_27.html#083004
Hey, if the media's looking for me, I'm right here, I'll be at work about 30 more minutes but they can call me on my cellphone and arrange for a Fox newsbabe (or Stephanie Abrams) to interview me...
Oh, they're looking for THAT Moose?
Never mind.
}:-)4
bump for DNC deathwatch
I wonder if Riley will be next
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/special_reports/katrina/story/2688723p-11232345c.html
New Orleans police chief defends officers
By MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 12:54 pm PDT Wednesday, September 7, 2005
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Fed up with the criticism, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass said Monday that his officers held their ground without food, water and even ammunition in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"In the annals of history, no police department in the history of the world was asked to do what we (were) asked," Compass said with a mix of anger and pride.
Two police officers killed themselves. Another was shot in the head. Compass said 150 had to be rescued from eight feet of water and others had gotten infections from walking through the murky soup of chemicals and pollutants in flooded areas of the city.
Compass denied that police officers deserted in droves. Some officers had abandoned their jobs, he said, but he did not know how many. He said the department was doing a roll call.
At a news conference earlier Monday in New Orleans, Deputy Police Superintendent Warren Riley said between 400 and 500 officers on the 1,600-member police force are unaccounted for.
Some lost their homes and some are looking for their families. "Some simply left because they said they could not deal with the catastrophe," Riley said.
The officers still on the beat in the flooded city are being cycled off duty and given five-day vacations in Las Vegas and Atlanta, where they will be offered counseling, officials said.
Compass, visiting the emergency operations center in Baton Rouge on his first trip outside New Orleans since the storm hit, said New Orleans had police officers "who made the ultimate sacrifice for this city."
"We had no food. We had no water. We ran out of ammunition. We had no vehicles. We were fighting in waist deep water that was infected and polluted," he said.
Compass said the looting and criminal activity involved a small group of people preying on the weak after being thrust into evacuation areas with regular citizens.
As for reports that police stood by while women were raped and people were beaten, the chief responded: "Are you crazy? We did everything that was humanly possible to protect human life."
Without communication or lights, officers sometimes had to follow the traces of light made by fired weapons and physically wrest the guns from individuals' hands, Compass said. He said he did not know how many people were shot by police since Katrina came ashore.
When asked what he thought of federal and state officials' response to the storm, Compass did not offer criticism.
"I'm not a bureaucrat. I'm a police chief. Those type of questions I don't really answer," he said. "We needed more resources, but those resources didn't come."
What did Bush know when did he know it cuz we all know this is his fault!
Perhaps he was embarrassed by the fact that the Houston PD had plenty of officers on the street with Rita to prevent the kinds of things that happened in NO?
some good news here. we've got to generate some disdain amongst the sheeple for the goings on in Lousiana regarding corruption et al. its the only way to save ourselves 250 billion dollars, and retain a shred of fiscal responsibility. hopefully Delay and Hastert are watching this - DON'T APPROVE ANY NEW RELIEF MONEY.
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