Posted on 10/28/2005 3:23:01 PM PDT by LA Woman3
Fifty-one members of the New Orleans Police Department, 45 officers and six civilian employees, were fired Friday for abandoning their posts before or after Hurricane Katrina.
"They were terminated due to them abandoning the department prior to the storm," acting superintendent Warren Riley said. "They either left before the hurricane or 10 to 12 days after the storm and we have never heard from them."
Police were unable to account for 240 officers on the 1,450-member force following Katrina. The force has been investigating them to see if they left their posts during the storm.
Lay off -vs- fired: big difference there....
Exactly! 51 seems like a low number....
What about the 500 or so police who didn't exist? Isn't that worth investigating or reporting on?
Wasn't there a report earlier, that at least a few hundred "police officers" on the payroll were PHANTOM officers that never existed?
Semper Fi
Perhaps they were phantom employees in the first place.
Yes, Tony Snow was covering it....haven't heard any updates though.
Great..this means these rogue cops will probably end up here in Florida, looking for work. Just what we don't need, disgruntled ex-cops with an ax to grind vs the world.
Dallas didn't hire them and neither should anyone in Florida. In fact anyone with NOPD on their resume should immediately be culled out and discarded - until NOPD can prove they are a real police force and not another criminal enterprise.AWB
My first thoughts exactly on this article. Seems like the headline is deliberately misleading, as a lay off is usually due to economic reasons rather than malfeasance or dereliction of duty.
Are these the real New Orleans cops or the imaginary ones?
I agree...however, there are so many companies here who will hire them for security reasons. They won't end up as cops but "muscle" somewhere, and of course, they'll have access to weapons.
Scary for someone, for sure.
But a private company that hires them will be leaving themselves wide open for lawsuits (if the NOPD guys screw up again). Perhaps the insurance industry will refuse to cover these guys?
they will be paying the other phantom cops with phantom checks
NOPD ping!
Only to us.
Oh, no! The checks are real!
A lawsuit isn't going to help after the fact if people are at the mercy of a guntoting disgruntled ex-cop.
All I'm saying is that these people are risky hires, at best. And God help the communities they choose to live and work in.
Be careful ... don't trample on their civil rights [never affected by civil wrongs] ... these folks have the right to live and work wherever they want to ... including the Dallas PD.
This situation is tailor made for the ACLU.
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