LOL! It doesn't get any better than this.
Perhaps the Mayor Nagin can claim he needed the phantom cops to handle the phantom crimes committed at the Superdome...
No, wait, he knew a hurricane was coming, so he created the positions on the department so they could be quickly filled in case of an emergency...
Umm, no, well, err... It's Bush's fault, dammit!
Next year all the hurricanes will be named Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush...