Bad Boys (FBI finds "deserting" police on New Orleans payroll don't exist)

Fox News ^ | September 27, 2005 | Tony Snow

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hours before New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass announced his resignation, Tony relayed some hot information he had heard from his Capitol Hill sources. It regarded an FBI investigation currently under way.

You can go to the source above and listen to that segment of his radio show.

Direct Audio Link

[YaYa123]

It's been impossible for me to reconcile the cop numbers, but I think there's no doubt:

From the very beginning, Mayor Nagin and Police Chief Compass were attempting to cover up NOPD corruption.
With their exaggerated stories of cop heroism, exaggerated stories of New Orleans violence, death, destruction, murder and mayhem. I think the Las Vegas/Atlanta R&Rs for cops was a part of it too.

Maybe some cops did desert, the following article gives a number. We don't know how many of that number were the phantom cops or actual deserters.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/sep/28/092801085.html

[Alia]

It's usually the "underlings" who get nailed.

[Alia]

I'm from CA. Know it well. Crime maintaining the Dems? lol. No kidding. But here's how they do it... "under the color of... law". Have I posted recently how much I despise UNIONS? Unions are the spawn, in CA, special interest groups are merely the "voice".

[Blood of Tyrants]

I'll bet that the chief of police, the mayor, the superintendent of the police and every other politician in the city has their own fake policeman. All they have to do is follow the paychecks!

[ditto h]

Could that other direction be prison?

No, I think he will soon start working for John Corsine

[Cincinatus' Wife]

New Orleans Police I can't seem to open the salary and benefits page.

[mewzilla]

Federalize the whole darn state. Making Honore Military Governor of the Federal Disctrict of Louisiana. Arrest all crooks. Censure Mary Landrieu and expel her from the Senate!

Amen.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It would be really hard to pick the most corrupt city in the nation; Washington DC, New Orleans, Chicago, or Trenton NJ.

[SuziQ]

I can barely believe my eyes and ears when hearing we are now being asked as a country to fork over gargantuan billions of dollars to Louisiana FOR THEIR CONTROL AND DISPENSATION, without so much as a receipt and/or documentation as to how it's spent.

I think the Presdient was proposing exactly they opposite, and the Louisiana delegation was fussing about that. The LA folks want the money with no strings and the President isn't playing.

[Cboldt]

And if the PD had phantom employees, you can bet that it wasn't the only department that did...

July 02, 2004

Contact: Jim Letten
Hale Boggs Federal Building, 500 Poydras Street, 2nd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: 504/680-3078

FEDERAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST 10 INDIVIDUALS FOR EXTORTION AND THEFT FROM NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL SYSTEM

Jim Letten, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, FBI Special Agent in Charge Louis Reigel, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Patricia VAngilder, IRS CID Special Agent in Charge Mike Nelson, and New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass, announced today the filing of three separate Bills of Information charging a total of ten individuals with federal felonies involved in fraud kickbacks involving the Orleans Parish school system. The first Bill of Information charges LILLIAN T. SMITH HAYDEL age 46, with conspiracy, along with former Orleans Parish school system risk manager Carl Coleman, to engage in a series of kickbacks in order to preserve insurance contracts on which she was a broker. The Bill of Information charges violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951, Hobbs Act Conspiracy which carries a maximum statutory penalty of twenty years incarceration.

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/invtreports/tx072004b.html?exp=7

[Flint]

Wonder if the missing cops are some of the 50,000 that the Clinton Administration "put on the street" with all their funding of law enforcement?

[VirginiaMom]

Little Mary Baby Fat Landrieu used to be Louisiana State Treasurer.....doesn't say much for the office, does it?

Trust them? Naaaaahhhhhh, I don't think so!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the LINKS!

I was looking for the looting photos.

Thanks!

[AlleyCat48]

Okay...thanks very much!

[Lazamataz]

Suddenly, the salaries and benefits page cannot open.

Imagine that.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A lot of us are wondering about that.

[maggief]

LA Woman3 repost:

http://tidbitsnews.com/tidbits_10_08_00.htm

New Orleans Police Department for instance was turned into a criminal element with police committing murders, extortion, dope dealing and protection for the rackets under Affirmative Action. Many applicants who were hired were convicted felons (although, convicted felons cannot legally be policeman). Forty-two officers in one year alone were charged with everything from rape to murder.

A Black female officer, Antonette Frank, murdered her former partner and two other people. Her former partner happened to be in a restaurant her and an accomplice were holding up, so she shot him because she thought he might identify her. Her father is missing and a skeleton found under her house is believed to be the father, her brother is also missing. She was the fourth Black officer in 12 months to be charged with murder.

Thirty-eight other New Orleans police officers in twelve months were arrested on various felony charges.

This is just one of hundreds of cases where unfit and unqualified persons have been put in positions over better qualified people, just because of race or gender.

These hiring practices are causing the very fabric of this nation to deteriorate and crumble.

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http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/032005ccjrwwlresidencyrequirement.15ac195ec.html

Spate of violent crime has police, city leaders questioning residency rules

07:58 AM CST on Monday, March 21, 2005

By Thanh Truong / WWLTV

The latest shooting and murder in New Orleans happened in broad day light, leaving one man dead in a hallway. Within a span of seven days, five people have been killed in shootings and eight others have been wounded in Orleans Parish.

Following Thursday's shooting at O. Perry Walker High School, police and school officials have acknowledged the need for more security and have been talking about ways to attract new officers to the police force.


City leaders should acknowledge the need to eliminate the city's residency requirement for recruiting new officers, said Lt. David Benelli.

"Until the politicians get it, until the community gets it - that we need more cops so we can adequately protect our citizens - we'll just be status quo and the killings will continue," he said.

Police Superintendent Eddie Compass recently announced his support for lifting the rule, which mandates officers must live within the parish to be among the police rank.

Also this week, City Councilmember Jay Batt announced his intention to have the council vote on the matter within two months.

The enforcement of the residency requirement dates back to the Marc Morial administration. Long-time supporters of the requirement, like the Black Organization of Police Officers, have recently shown willingness to temporarily lift the rule with certain conditions, including incentives for officers who decide to live in Orleans Parish.

The current movement to drop the requirement is the first time since its institution that political will seems to be behind lifting it, Benelli said.

"I think what's different is that people are now looking at it with open minds, and they're looking at it because of the lawlessness and killing we've been having," he said.

Crime is actually on the decline. The number of violent crimes in the city has dropped by more than half from 1996 to 2003, but Benelli doesn't believe statistics make people feel safe.

"We do have a reduction in violent crimes, but we still have too much crime," he said. "The problem is we're comparing ourselves to ourselves. If we compare New Orleans to Boston, we had 256 murders last year. Boston had less than 100."

With a force of more than 1,600 officers, the police department is about 200 short of its ideal goal. Until the police can look beyond parish lines to find new recruits, New Orleans faces more weeks of violence, Benelli said.

[js1138]

I'm have to assume that these 500 cops were on the street because of Bill Clinton's federal dollars.

[Kozak]

They don't call Louisiana America's last banana republic for nothing!!

Last? ever heard of Chicago, Detroit or Philadelphia?