Louisiana National Guard will remain in New Orleans to help police

time-picayune ^ | Dec 20, 11:07 AM EST | Bill Barrow

[BenLurkin]

About 100 Louisiana National Guardsmen will remain on police duty in New Orleans through March 1, a legislative panel decided Friday.

But some lawmakers from outside the metropolitan area bristled at the city's request for continued aid, spending several minutes brow-beating Police Superintendent Warren Riley about his department's repeated trips to the Capitol for help since Hurricane Katrina.

Riley defended the city's progress and promised lawmakers that Friday would be his last appearance before the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

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There has been a National Guard presence in the city since the post-Katrina flooding, with the aid being extended several times as the NOPD rebuilds its force after losing hundreds of officers.

[Sacajaweau]

Police duty? I didn’t know they have police powers.

[RC2]

The National Guard should be used to build more prisons. They’ll need them.

[Kirkwood]

They have more cops than before Katrina, but a much worse result.

[BenLurkin]

This story amazes me. From the start of Nagin’s failure to prepare, to the NOPD looting Walmart, to the insanity in the Superdome......it's almost as if New Orleans was a foreign city.

[darkwing104]

We need to have another Katrina Fund Raiser. This time the Money will be used to bulldoze N.O. in the Gulf of Mexico. I am sick and tired of listening to these bunch of whiners.

[BnBlFlag]

New Orleans was once a great city and was my favorite town. Some of the best times I’ve ever had were there.
But that was then and this is now.
The White middle class has long since deserted the city and left in it’s wake some of the lowest class Blacks in the Country in charge. A disaster of epic proportions.

[pgkdan]

I’m down wid dat!

[Kirkwood]

The white middle class have been the minority there for couple of generations now, but they are still around in large numbers. There has been no mass exodus of whites. The recovery of the city to where it is today is amazing in such a short period of time. It is being held back by a totally dysfunctional govt and a distorted perception of reality foisted off by the MSM.

[Bulldawg Fan]

Lets hope the corruption of the city and police dont rub off on the NG.

[Ken H]

...as the NOPD rebuilds its force after losing hundreds of officers.

Did they all exit in their brand new comandeered Cadillac Escalades?

[IbJensen]

The NG might have to help the NO policia go to the toilet.

[magslinger]

Quagmire?