Aaron Brown- 50-60% of NO police have deserted-Damn

[Old Vet]

[KyndCulture]

1. Yeah the Gov said this. They are turning in their badges,

saying that can't protect themselves much less anyone else..

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. But How Many Had Just Evacuated? n/t

[kenny blankenship]

3. Anyone still want to excuse shooting at the ones who stayed at their post?

?

[Tyranny_R_US]

4. Good and I hope they make Ray Nagin eat a few of those badges...

There is no use working without pay yet be expected to discontinue life saving rescue operations and dedicate themselves to take care of property first!

[tnlefty]

12. I'd prefer that they stuff them up Dimson's** ass when he visits Fri.

There is no excuse for "King Vacation" doing absolutely frickin' nothin' to try to prevent this disaster! NOTHING, except eat cake with McCain and play guitar, make some speechifying, and basically do NOTHING to head this off before it got so bad. Then to do so very little in the days following....no, just Bush** with more lack of forethought, just the same ole' callous, fake christian, pitiful excuse for a human being that he's always been.

[bpilgrim]

5. and they have no food, water, gas or communications

can't blame'm everyone is in survival mode - good thing the elite got someone to blame their CATASTROPHIC SUCCESS on, always, the LOOTERS are holding us back :eyes:

peace

[Teaser]

6. People blame the Iraqi's for deserting.

This is what happens in a Total System Breakdown.

When there is no social power to back you up, you can't feel safe exerting power yourself. You become just another person with a gun.

[Faygo Kid]

7. What a look on his face when he heard that.

I will never forget it.

[salin]

8. so sadly - the comparisons to Bagdad just after it fell grow-

mayhem - panic - lawlessness - no power/food/water - and desperation as well as criminal desperation - and, now, police defection. So very sad that reality now, for far too many people, appears to have morphed into an "Escape to LA" type movie. My heart is so heavy, I can not even imagine what life on the ground there is like.

[WLKjr]

9. What would you do if you were asked to stop looters and halt

rescue operations in a time like this?????


I would fucking quit too.

[Corgigal]

10. I saw video of a cop crying inside a car today

besides it being unsafe, they just can't handle seeing it anymore.

[fishwax]

15. I saw that too

damn, I can't imagine what that guy must have seen and been through over the last few days :cry:

[KamaAina]

11. What's going to happen to them?

Are they going to form vigilante groups?

Ordinarily I would vigorously oppose such a thing, but now? It might be those people's only hope.

They actually have (had) a lot of good cops in N.O. relative to some other big cities. N.O. has a long tradition of "cop families".

I wonder if anything like this is happening in Jeff Parish? A friend of mine once dated a JP deputy, so I put in quite some time in the back of a JP squad car (which he was using like a company car)!

[kskiska]

14. NOLA cops are highly desirable to recruiters from other cities

They are well trained in crowd control, and have a large mounted division. I've seen them in action clearing the streets after Mardi Gras. They don't mess around. Their pay is pitiful, making them prime targets for recruiters, and many accept new jobs and move away.

[KamaAina]

17. I meant in the immediate future -- but you have a point

Who will patrol the rebuilt city once the recruiters have hoovered up all the current NOPD?

edit: speling in header

[bribri16]

13. Don't forget, these men and women live there and have families

that they want to get to safety. I am not going to be judgemental about anyone in this mess EXCEPT the thus who are preventing aid getting to people in need.

[bottomofthehill]

16. Command and Control breakdown

When command and control breaks down there is no wat to monitor the troops. I don't think there are that many people quitting, many of them are not able to report to their stations as they may be under as much as 25 feet of water. Would you report to work and if you did, who would know.