Posted on 10/08/2005 3:51:04 AM PDT by dennisw
Dozens may have fled in 'commandeered' cars
Cops turned up in Baton Rouge after storm
Acting New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Thursday that as many as 40 officers from the department's 3rd District, including the commanding captain, are "under scrutiny" for possibly bolting the city in the clutch and heading to Baton Rouge in Cadillacs from a New Orleans dealership.
. Asked if Capt. Donald Paisant, who replaced Capt. James Scott as the 3rd District commander, was a part of that review, Riley said, "Certainly the commander of that district is under scrutiny."
Last week, after reports surfaced that the Louisiana attorney general's office was investigating the alleged theft of about 200 cars from Sewell Cadillac Chevrolet, possibly by NOPD officers, Riley revealed his own internal investigations. All told, Riley said 12 officers were under investigation for looting or failing to combat looting in their presence, four officers had been suspended and one had been reassigned.
Riley said he was surprised to learn that "at least 40" 3rd District officers were in Baton Rouge after the hurricane. Riley said that at some point after a number of 3rd District teams were rescued from the Louisiana State University Dental School he spoke to clumps of them at the Hampton Inn and Suites on Convention Center Boulevard.
"At that point they were just settling in for the evening," he said. "A day or so later we learned they were in Baton Rouge, and they were immediately ordered to return to the city."
The story about the 3rd District's involvement at Sewell has percolated among the force for weeks and has some captains enraged, but Riley's statement was the first indication it has come to the attention of NOPD's highest circle.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
..in a pink Cadillac ... in a pink Cadillac ...
if yer gonna take a car for "police" reasons....
lol
"no what let me bail outta town in a Honda Prius!!"
This load must have been a great asset during those traumatic times./s>
He should either drop some weight or be forced off the job.
I wonder how many practically new Escalades have shown up in the Truck Shopper out in Las Vegas in the last month.
After seeing the evacuees from NO, it's apparent that no food stamps should be issued until they show they are losing weight. No wonder their health care costs are so astronomical. What a sick city.
was this before they got free trips to Las Vegas?
"The 3rd District was flooded out of its Moss Street headquarters, and officers had been trapped in the dental school for three days.
Riley said many of the district's cars had been washed out and that evacuating officers from the dental school proved difficult because the water level was 6 feet below the nearest windows."
This story is a crock.
If they had trouble being evacuated from the Dental School, how did they manage to drive away in brand new Cadillac's in 6 feet of water?
But to more effectively fight crime you need to have some bling.
When FEMA director Brown commented on the dysfunctional local and state governments in Louisiana, he knew what he was talking about.
To our RINOS in Congress, it is more "correct" to follow the media template of the story than to stand with Brown and admit the truth.
See, this is why it was a good thing that the NO police Dept was staffed with 700 nonexistant cops. Cause if the Police force was really he 1700 on the payroll, not the 1,000 actual, crime would have been 170% greater.
I wonder if the Federal Government would have helped to rebuild Sodom. Probably.
Hey, you don't expect them to drive to Vegas in anything less?
LOL!
No,no,no, the article says: "...the water level was 6 feet below the nearest windows." So where were the nearest windows already? The ground floor?
Sick people in an outlaw, sick city.
Every theiving bastard in NO should be shot and used for crab bait.
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