Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos: police official

Agence France-Presse ^ | September 3, 2005

[jwalsh07]

I'm a Washington fan. I place him head and shoulders above Jefferson and Madison.

[jwalsh07]

By the way, special words of derision are in oreder for another President of the United States., one Lyndon B Johnson. I wish he were still alive so I could tell him what I think of him.

[Accygirl]

From OUR friends the French... Talk about hate America time. They can't even be nice to us after a tragedy.

[Torie]

And he was a Federalist too! He had good judgment, and self restraint. I should have added that.

[Torie]

Ah that asshole. I regret I was around to witness it all. The memories still suffuse me with rage, and will until my final exit.

[atomic conspiracy]

I wonder if Commander Riley can enlighten us as to how many Guardsmen have deserted during this crisis, compared to the wholesale bugout of his own force?

[Socratic]

you can whip up on me,

Not at all. Yesterday was the first time I'd seen Perry and I was mightily impressed.

[jwalsh07]

And he was a Federalist too!

Only the Good Lord is perfect. :-}

[Torie]

LOL. Ain't that the truth. I certainly hope he is there, because I just don't fill the bill. :)

[jwalsh07]

See ya later. Keep the faith.

[itsahoot]

http://neworleans.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm Crime stats for New Orleans.

[ChadGore]

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[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

Agreed.

[ASOC]

The NOPD is the lowest paid and least trained of all 'big city" PD, many have pointed out the corruption before the storm.

Note to everyone, real disaster plans count on a percentage of public employee no-shows. Human nature is to take of your own first, then worry about the job...

Since NO was right at the edge of bankruptcy, the cops may have figured they had nothing to lose by running away.

Several other posters have noted that only you can count on you to take care of you (or words to that effect), to which I will add only this, learn from this to avoid being one of these poor souls seen on the nightly news.....

[DJ MacWoW]

The more I hear, the more it sounds like these guys really screwed up.

Well....at the least the mayor and govenor certainly did. When those in command behave as if it's no big deal and there IS no emergency, you have the makings of a disaster.

[Wolverine]

Seems like I remember several Police corruption scandles in recent years..

[Freedom is eternally right]

Which state's guardsmen? Did the governor call for them or did they come on someone else's orders to wait for full staging? Did the complainent have time to supervise his own looting officers while he was criticizing others?
Guess he means the NG from one of these three states since apparently nobody from Louisiana did anything wrong.
(from an AP story on another thread):

In fact, when New Orleans' levees gave way to deadly flooding on Tuesday, Louisiana's National Guard had received help from troops in only three other states: Ohio, which had nine people in Louisiana then; Oklahoma, 89; and Texas, 625, figures provided by the National Guard show.

[Pharmboy]

Well done in finishing off that analogy...