Well let's see, we have ghost cops, coward cops, cops stealing Cadillacs, looter cops, cops holed up in hotels stealing generators from hospitals to keep their beer cold, cops stopping people from leaving New Orleans as it flooded, cops refusing to rescue women stranded on roofs unless they bared their breasts, yep, I'd say it was time to fire the chief.
Soooo...Nagin's story is that he knew about none of this until the busy days right after Katrina, when he fired Compass?
That he sent the cops to Las Vegas with $200 per day gambling money before he found out the cops were crooked?
Yah, that's gonna fly.
Yo, GeeDub?
It's time.
Get the Feds in there.
Give them the good kevlar flack jackets, this is mob territory after all.
Clean house and take no prisoners.
If you need an excuse, have the Senate Investiugative Committee issue an interim report. Pick a subject.
If you don't act on this and keep them off balance, they will turn it all onto you. They're already trying with the levees. Chop chop, burning daylight here.
I'm with you on this. Otherwise, I'll stay posted and wait for the spin on how this was all Bush's fault... Nagin and Blanko should be in JAIL right now along with a lot of other corrupt people.
jeffers, have we ever determined just exactly which cops had the $200/day gambling per diem ... were they real cops ... or were they phantom cops? And, what exactly were they doing in Las Vegas?
This whole screwy deal was so suspect that bells went off ... yet, I have not figured out what sort of nefarious things these folks may have been up to ... Why Las Vegas? Why such a precipitate trip? What was really going on?
I suppose the prevailing sentiment is so anti-NO elected officials that they may be voted out of office, so Gov. demands that they be kept in office past their terms expiration date.
Get the Feds in there.
Give them the good kevlar flack jackets, this is mob territory after all.
Clean house and take no prisoners.
Do you think it may be time for another Federal District ... like D.C.? That thought keeps popping into my mind more and more.
For the time being, federalize all of Orleans Parish [City of New Orleans] ... and as much else as necessary ... and let the fun begin. Once that happens ... let "them" petition for "home rule" from time to time ... but keep the Federal thumb on the money and see what ... if anything ... can be done to bring this banana republic into comformance with the laws of civilized society.
I have seen evidence that the folks of Uptown would love to secede from the City of N.O. ... they survived the hurricane ... and there is a higher incidence of advanced degrees than the country at large. They may be quite capable of self-governance as a separate entity.
All the rest goes into the federal district ... all control would be removed from both the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana. If they don't like that ... well, Hey! they can forego federal dollars for rebuilding their city ... and rebuild it any other way they can [not a bad alternative solution, anyway].
Can anyone think of any better solution?