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QUESTIONS SURFACE IN WAKE OF COMPASS' RESIGNATION
SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Eddie Compass has resigned as the New Orleans Police chief, the Associated Press Reports.

On the heels of N.O. police chief Eddie Compass' resignation, allegations are emerging. Fox News' Tony Snow has said that of the 1700 police working for New Orleans, maybe only 1000 really exist.

Rogers asked someone in the know, who agreed with Snow's statements.

"It's pretty much always been known, but never openly acknowledged, that NOPD's actual numbers were far below the "official" figure of 1500 - 1700," said the source.

"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.

Developing...

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Filed by Chad E. Rogers
http://www.thedeadpelican.com for updates
06/28/05
(c) 2005 The Dead Pelican

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"It's pretty much always been known, but never openly acknowledged, that NOPD's actual numbers were far below the "official" figure of 1500 - 1700," said the source.

Then why in HADES didn't anyone DO something about it?!

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Old Habits? "These six volumes together form a roster of the employees of the New Orleans Police Department from its beginnings in 1882 through the year 1946. It appears that NOPD officials from time to time ordered that information about active employees from the cu rrent book be copied into a new book. There is, therefore, considerable overlap in names and information from one volume to the next."
New Orleans (La.) Police Dept. Rosters, ca. 1882-1946