Posted on 12/03/2005 3:43:14 PM PST by abb
Fed money huh??
They are in BIG trouble in New Orleans cause they are gonna have open up the books
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When are they gonna say "It's Bush's Fault?"
No one should be surprised. NOLA, like the state of LA itself, has been run by a bunch of crooks for decades.
Just wait 'till the Feds. look into West Virginia (if ever!)
I hope you're right, Mo; I'm sick and tired of hearing that our tax dollars are spent for propping up the stuff that has gone on in New Orleans all these years.
LOL! Talk about understatement, you've done it.
Yes, and each phony officer will have to have things like SSNs and other documentation in order to have checks cut, okay Feds, where's the cajones?? Get 'R Done boys!
NOPD has been in the spotlight lately, but the same type of problems have been plaguing the NO schools, too. Ghost employees, kickbacks, etc. The worst public schools in the nation.
My payroll books were eaten by the dog, were lost in the fire, were washed away in the flood. Yeah, that's it. They were washed away.
100,000 cops. If this was the modis operendi in NO, how many other big cities have and are doing the same thing?
"This city needs an enema!"
Batman and Robin, if memory serves.
Oh GOODY; this should be fun to watch! :-)
Sorry. That was not clear; however, it referred to Post No.6 by Izzy Dunne:
Gee, nobody expected THIS when Bill Clinton promised 100,000 more police officers on the streets with federal money in 199x.
It was a much touted goal/"accomplishment" of the first Clinton administration to "put 100,000 more cops on the streets". It was not just New Orleans.
100,000 Cops on the Beat? Not Even If You Use New MathWASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2000 -— Eager to claim credit for a dropping national crime rate, President Clinton continues to boast of putting "more than 100,000 new community police officers" on the street through the Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.
But the first independent analysis of the program, released today by The Heritage Foundation, shows that the actual number of new officers added through COPS falls well below the 100,000 mark.
Analyzing the latest Justice Department data on COPS grants, along with crime statistics and other FBI data, researchers in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis conclude that COPS—and a predecessor program that also funded community policing—added, at most, only some 40,000 full-time officers to the nation’s police ranks during its first five years (1993-1998).
Hope this helps to clear things up.
I had a conversation about the post-Katrina political situation with a life-long New Orleanian a couple of weeks ago. She mentioned what a poor job Blanco is doing. I replied that it was a shame that Bobby Jindal didn't win that election. Jindal is now a congressman and he's accomplishing more for the state in Katrina's aftermath than Blanco.
My friend made a face and then pined for the days of Gov. Edwin Edwards, who is now in prison. She said, "Sure, he's a crook. Everybody knew it. But he knew how to get things done."
That's the kind of mentality we're dealing with here.
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner! The federally funded "100,000 new police on the street" initiative, paid for with OUR money, was, in fact, a political bribe to major metropolitan mayors, aldermen, police chiefs, police commissioners, etc., in return for their political support. They knew damned well the money would be embezzled; that's why he lobbied for it. I will predict NO isn't the only major US city with "phantom" police officers on the payroll.
I remember reading about this statistic but it was much higher. I googled and found the following article:
New Orleans murder rate on the rise again--Homicide rate nowhere near ’94 peak but still 10 times national average
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8999837/
Snippets: NEW ORLEANS - Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.
“There is something going on in New Orleans that is not going on elsewhere.”
Coming up with more cash has been a chronic problem for money-pinched New Orleans, which typically lurches from budget to budget.
“As far as law enforcement goes, money is at the root of everything,” said Lt. David Benelli, head of the police officers union. “We need more personnel, more equipment.
Homicides hit their historic peak here in 1994, with 421 dead — more per capita than any other U.S. city that year. Within just five years, the number was slashed by nearly two-thirds, to 159, as homicides plummeted nationally.
But by last year, the number in New Orleans had crept back up to 265. There had been 192 this year by mid-August, compared with 169 at the same time in 2004. Adjusted for the city’s size, those numbers dwarf murder rates in Washington, Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City.
For police, recruitment is a continuing problem. The department has a poor image in the community, with allegations of brutality and corruption dating back decades. The city now has 3.14 officers per 1,000 residents — less than half the ratio in Washington, D.C.
“My heart goes out to these police officers,” Scharf said. “They’re fighting public apathy, racial division and a dysfunctional court system. They work their hearts out, and nothing ever happens to these cases.”
Only one in four people arrested in the city for murder is eventually convicted...
No, but I'll bet they;re the BEST at it.
Experience counts.
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