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

[Anti-Bubba182]

Thanks for the link. If this is true Compass better move to Aruba. I'm sure he could afford it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'm beginning to think Nagin bought a house in Texas to escape jurisdiction, not the hurricane.

In Texas they can't take your house or your car. However, I don't know if this pertains to someone who is a resident in another state.

[Deetes]

BTTT

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Maybe he's getting his wife and child set up for when he takes the big fall.

[syriacus]

A study of the NOPD was completed in 2003. It contained very bad news, but did not receive much attention. You would have thought some TV show like 60-minutes 20/20 could have spent time investigating NO's crime/police problem, instead of making up stories about Bush.

A Blockbuster Report [New Orleans was already MURDER CAPITAL of the US]

"New Orleans is facing a crisis: our police force is shrinking at the same time that our city has recaptured the distinguished title of 'murder capital' of the United States among major cities," the Foundation stated.

"We now have only about 1500 officers actually engaged in police work, down from 1700 three years ago. Not surprisingly, the reduction in police strength has been accompanied by steep increases in the number of murders.

CITIES AND CRIME: New Orleans homicides up as people fear killers, cops

"We're going in the reverse of 46 of the top 50 cities in the United States. Almost everyone is going down, but we're going up," said criminologist Peter Scharf. "There is something going on in New Orleans that is not going on elsewhere.

[snip]New Orleans has had such a problem with retaliation against witnesses -- including murder -- that the district attorney's office took the unusual step of starting a local witness protection program.

Witnesses may also be reluctant to talk to police because of allegations of police brutality and corruption.

[rvoitier]

I hope that direction is towards Bubba.

[CurlyDave]

I bet taxes weren't paid on the stolen money, which makes it a federal case, not just state.

Nagin can't escape federal juristiction in Texas.

Maybe Compass is going to take the fall for all of them. Give the prosecutors a wile to work on him & see what shakes out.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the LINK.

If you drove into New Orleans from TX (my only area of knowledge), you needed to be careful because the police would stop you at the drop of a hat. A favorite reason to pull someone over, lane changing. Oh and that section of I-10 was in just awful repair. Half the time you changed lanes just to find a good piece of road.

I imagine a lot of payoffs were done on the side of the road in the form of cash or drugs.

Then we were led to believe that LA and New Orleans had cleaned up their act. It seems, they just added some new ones.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I wonder how long the msm will keep this buried.

[rvoitier]

RASTRO says R&R=Run & Ride.

[M1911A1]

I think it is significant that Nagin didn't distance himself from Compass (yet, Nagin makes some pretty wild swings)so I think that they are not pointing fingers at each other for now.

I wager that Nagin didn't "know" about this, in the sense that the corruption is mature enough that it is compartmentalized. Don't forget that a lot of the records involved are going to be missing because of the flood.

This might be trickier than it looks to unravel, unless those involved continue the past habit of not being able to shut up when a camera is rolling.

[Anti-Bubba182]

If this goes public beyond what Tony Snow's sources said there is no way this could stay burried. Either there were real people on the payroll or there were not.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Reports of New Orleans mayhem probably exaggerated, police say***NEW ORLEANS - On Sept. 1, with desperate Hurricane Katrina evacuees crammed into the convention center, Police Chief Eddie Compass reported: "We have individuals who are getting raped; we have individuals who are getting beaten."

Five days later, Mayor C. Ray Nagin told Oprah Winfrey: "They have people standing out there, have been in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."

The ugliest reports — children with slit throats, women dragged off and raped, corpses piling up in the basement — soon became a searing image of post-Katrina New Orleans.

The stories were told by residents trapped inside the Superdome and convention center and were repeated by public officials. Many news organizations carried the witness accounts and official pronouncements and in some cases later repeated the claims as fact, without attribution.

But now, a month after the chaos subsided, police are re-examining the reports and finding that many of them have little or no basis in fact...........***

[HiTech RedNeck]

Don't forget that a lot of the records involved are going to be missing because of the flood.

The IRS should know however.

SELECT NAME, SSN from TAXPAYER where EMPLOYER = 'NOLA' and OCCUPATION = 'Police'

[rvoitier]

"But of course the IRS has the pay records... you can't make an SSN vanish."

There are about 200 murders in NOLA a year. Just off the top of my head, I'd say they have 700 ssn's free-of-charge in 3.5 years.

Maybe I'm being too cynical.

[GoLightly]

Hmmm, who would one have to contact to hire a bunch of fake police officers?

New Orleans Police Foundation
Elodia Blanco, Recruiting Coordinator
400 Poydras St. Suite 2105
New Orleans, La. 70130

http://www.nopdonline.com/rec.htm

[Anti-Bubba182]

".. Don't forget that a lot of the records involved are going to be missing because of the flood."

I don't think that would be decisive against finding out some officers are non-existant and the larger the number the more difficult to cover up once the FBI starts looking into details and names available.

There are too many details in too many places in a real life for a record loss to cover. There are tax records, banking records, licenses, marriages, divorces, and on and on.

The success of a fraud like this depends on no one taking a hard look.

[syriacus]

Thanks for the information about the "Ghost cops." I hadn't heard this before reading your thread.

[GoLightly]

Which Blanco? See my post #76 in this thread.

[skimask]

I remember when this flooding started, FReepers were saying "This is going to expose the dark underbelly of New Orleans"...Once again you guys were right. This is big