Posted on 09/29/2005 2:39:46 AM PDT by abb
After announcing his retirement Tuesday, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass told several high-ranking officers that he had been forced out by Mayor Ray Nagin, the officers said Wednesday.
They said Compass told them the decision came on the heels of a heated confrontation with the mayor. The officers spoke only on condition that they not be named.
Reached Wednesday by e-mail, Nagin said that those accounts were "inaccurate."
Compass could not be reached for comment.
At a hastily called news conference Tuesday with Nagin in attendance, Compass announced that he was retiring. When asked by a reporter whether Compass was being forced out, Nagin said no.
But after the announcement, Compass returned to a cruise ship where he and other displaced officers had been living, where they say he told them he had been forced to resign.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Why you do that to a hero, mayor?
No more gun grabbing for Eddie.
In other words, you're questioning the timing of this revelation? ;-)
Maybe Nagin is setting it up to look like Compass was the only one involved in padding the books with cops who didn't exist? (if that story turns out to be true too)
"Katrinas Attempted Coup D'Tat" ...(At the bottom the page)
"Handlers shuffled Nagin off in one direction, Compass in another" --- to your corners, boys, and come out fighting.
***The women were on the roof of the hotel, calling for help as floodwaters rose. Then a motorboat full of policemen came by. “Can you help us?” the women cried. The policemen replied, “Show us what you’ve got!” and motioned for them to lift their T-shirts.
The women said no. The policemen left them there.
I figured that story for an urban legend when one of my students wrote about it in a class I teach. Too crazy to be true, I thought.
But the tale turns out to be an eyewitness account from one Ged Scott, a bus driver from suburban Liverpool, England, who, with his wife and son, was on vacation in New Orleans when that city was swamped by Hurricane Katrina. Scott’s story has received considerable play in British newspapers; as near as I can tell, it has not been picked up stateside.
....Show us your breasts and we’ll get you out of here?
You’ll have to go some to find a better illustration of the utter banality of evil.
I’m reminded of a piece of wisdom picked up somewhere along the way: Crises, it said, do not so much build character as reveal it. Calamity, in other words, has this way of knocking down artifice and pretension; the devices people construct to keep other people from seeing who they really are. In a very real sense, you become yourself when things are disintegrating all around you.
Let’s face it, more than levees broke in New Orleans. Social order broke. Police authority broke. Chain of command broke. Communications broke. All the structures we build to restrain the floodwaters of human behavior broke....***
http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2005/09/29/opinion/opinion/doc433b648f82e9e731012202.txt
My guess is that when the reporters started poking around asking questions about cops looting, etc., Nagin figured he best cut his losses...
I am so sorry to learn of their hardship during this crisis. Clearly, GWB doesn't care about black people.
Interesting. That explaination for the missing cops does make sense considering rhe Louisiana political climate.
If true then it's about the only thing Nagin has done that I can agree with.
That was the first thing that came to mind. Frist/delay...hmmmm Nagin/Blanco...hmmmmm
There was another police chief who was out speaking for the NO police, whatever happened to him? I haven't seen hide nor hair of him.
I've been trying to hit all these threads with the EDDIECOMPASS keyword. If anyone knows of other articles that should get it, please add it, or ping me to it. Thanks.
If you haven't seen the story about Tony Snow's report that the Feds are investigating the missing NOLA cops, and were finding they didn't exist, and were perhaps really phantom employees, you need to see that thread.
Isn't that a little like hiring the KKK to teach the NOPD how to rap?
It sounds like government money being passed around to friends.
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