Thanks!
From your LINK.
***...."To get that number over 1500, and thus qualify for federal funding, Compass and his predecessors counted reservists and certain retirees as active duty officers. The REAL number is, and has been for some time, a lot closer to 1000."
Some time ago, the Feds were considering taking over the NOPD. Allegedly, that's when the "cooking of the books" on numbers of cops started in earnest, because one of the feds' complaints was the low number of officers, Rogers is told.
Some suspect that this should be the death knell for the" residency rule," which requires NOPD officers to live in New Orleans....***
http://www.thedeadpelican.com/COMPASS.HTM
hooboy. uncle sam does not take kindly to fraud.
No wonder Nagin, Blanco and Landrieau came out shrieking at the beginning of all of this!
The best defense is a good offense.
Geesh!
Pinz