The africanization of the cities continues at full speed
Posted on 07/28/2022 2:20:13 AM PDT by TigerClaws
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Superintendent Shaun Ferguson chastised journalists Tuesday (July 26) for reporting on the New Orleans Police Department’s worsening manpower problems instead of more “positive” news. But even the chief admitted one of the NOPD’s latest personnel losses was especially disturbing.
Scott Fanning, a third-year officer assigned to the Eighth District policing the French Quarter and Central Business District, walked off the job last Friday in the middle of his night watch shift, notifying a supervisor by text message that he was quitting the force.
“It was disheartening,” Ferguson said at a news conference at NOPD headquarters, ”especially knowing the oath we take.
“He abandoned his post. He just walked out on his brothers and sisters in blue. He abandoned the citizens of New Orleans. He abandoned this department.”
But in an exclusive interview with Fox 8, Fanning explained his decision was one of self-preservation.
“The reason I left is that something just kind of clicked for me, that it was just not worth it,” Fanning said. “That night I quit, there were over 40 calls holding when I logged into my computer, and there were only 35 patrol officers logged in for all eight districts.”
For a city with an estimated population of around 377,000, Fanning saw less than three dozen patrol officers on the streets last Friday night. He decided then that would be his last night on the force.
“It was kind of sad,” admitted Fanning, a 23-year-old Northshore man who applied with the NOPD as soon as he reached the minimum qualifying age of 20 1/2. Fanning completed academy training on his first attempt and was sworn in as part of Recruit Class No. 188 on May 1, 2020.
Fanning said he was far from the only NOPD officer struggling with low morale. He said veteran officers with pension qualification in their sights might want to leave but feel they can’t, while younger officers don’t feel the same restraints. He said traditional police gripes about pay or workload are being eclipsed by safety concerns for officers who realize they have little backup during their shifts.
“I wanted to be a police officer,” he said. “Even when I started three years ago, there would be six or seven officers out with you on your shift. Now, it’s more like two or three. Four was a good day. But some nights, there has been literally one person. ... I had worked a day where it was only me who showed up in the whole district.”
Fox 8 obtained a copy of the report filed by supervisors over Fanning’s mid-shift resignation.
“I’m considering going to pilot school,” he said. “I’m still young enough to do something different. But there are other people leaving for less pay (at other policing agencies), because at least you’re not feeling like you’re going to die every day. ... I’ve been thinking about it a while, but quitting your job is a hard thing to do.”
As Fox 8 reported Monday night, Fanning is one of at least 107 police officers who have quit or retired from the NOPD in the first seven months of 2022. A recently retired sergeant told Fox 8 he fears for the officers who remain as their numbers continue to dwindle and new academy classes lack sufficient numbers of recruits to keep pace.
“If they say 1,000 officers ... they’re including a ton of different people that aren’t even at the district level,” the former sergeant , who asked not to be identified, told Fox 8 in an exclusive interview. “You start getting to the streets, you’ve got a lot of disgruntled, low-morale, tired emotionally and mentally exhausted police officers.”
The department’s public-facing dashboard lists 971 officers still in the department, not including recruits and reservists. But the actual number of officers out on the streets responding to calls is much lower, according to the ex-sergeant and multiple sources.
reassigning some district detectives and some administrative officers from headquarters to uniform roles that make them available for street duty.
“Despite the smaller number of officers on the streets, we remain fully engaged,” Ferguson said. “When the media keeps sending that message (about diminishing manpower), we’re also sending that message to the criminals. We’re doing the best with what we have. We’re going to continue to monitor what is working and what is not.”
As far as former officer Fanning is concerned, city leadership and NOPD management has turned a blind eye to the crisis for too long.
“They should be able to see that they are failing us,” he said. “The individuals aren’t the problem. ... I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner, honestly. Nothing is changing for it to get better.”
When criminals are arrested the Soros DA lets them out immediately. Most of the charges are dropped.
Another Dem hellhole spiraling into third world chaos.
BLM is getting what it wanted.
Anarcho-communists create so much chaos that people beg for socialism and all pwerful governments,
No one should be a policeman when democrat politicians are in charge.
This turd quit by text message
Claims he might go to flight school to become a pilot. That shows how whack he is. Costs plenty of cash to train from zero to commercial and takes years.
I get that he’d had enough. There is a right way to go about things
The africanization of the cities continues at full speed
Nifster, I wholly agree. While his comments about why he quit are justified, he QUIT IN THE MIDDLE OF A SHIFT - that is cowardice.
The problem may be especially stark in police departments and in schools, but I think it's endemic through all of society. The management layer just fails.
On the one hand, management focuses on "checking the box" -- how many women on staff? How many blacks? How many homosexuals? Have you offered diversity training this month? If you check enough boxes, you are doing an excellent job as a manager, right?
On another note, managers focus on cost and schedules. And they should. That stuff really is important. But do they ever spend time managing anything or anyone? Do they care? I have found that the last thing most areas seem to want is any sort of creative problem solving. "We've always done it this way" is the only correct answer even when evrything is manifestly falling apart. By all means track those statistics, chart the numbers on a nice pie chart and you are good to go. Sure, you're not fixing anything, but management is not about fixing anything. It's about paper-shuffling and managing the situation in a politically correct way.
This society is just heading off a cliff.
His “bucks” to “bulls...” scale went to the BS side.
No back up?
Realized that he was in an untenable situation?
There is being polite and doing things the correct way and there is listening to your gut and saving your life.
Too bad.
Another once great, incredibly unique American City going to hell.
I thought NOLA was larger than 377,000.
Guess he was done with putting his life on the line for a group of
uncivilized 81 iq populants.
Katrina shrunk the population significantly.
Savannah, GA having EXACT same problem. They hired a police chief based on his ethnicity despite his record of failure at every single previous job. Now he has resigned. And the city council will replace him with another failure. Oh, the Police chief prior to the current failure just finished his sentence in federal prison.
Officers are leaving in droves. Crime is exploding between the incompetent police chief and a Soros DA. The DA has decided to not prosecute drunk driving offenses, shoplifting and various other crimes she deems unimportant.
Local stores have started putting more and more items behind locked, glass cases. Tourists do not realize how dangerous things are in Savannah. Some tourists have been killed but somehow the city keeps it out of the news. Hmmm.
You’d think they would’ve learned something about AA Police Chiefs during Katrina.
He quit mid shift for maximum effect and press exposure. They are letting these cops out to dry and he owes the city and the Police force absolutely nothing.
I walked off my job forever right after my sadistic alcoholic boss threw his sandwich at me. (It had to do with mustard or mayo — can’t recall which. Whichever it was, he didn’t want it, and the restaurant got the order wrong.)
If he was a “coward” he wouldn’t have raised his hand in the first place. 40 calls sitting in the queue before he even starts his tour. No backup if things go south. A media and city leadership ready and waiting to crucify him, if he takes an action that local rabble rousers think is over the line. Cops are always raked over the coals for losing their sh#t and taking aggressive action against a suspect, if they have had enough. I give this kid credit. He knew he reached his limit and simply checked out, instead of simply riding it out to earn his pension. This is the first time in my life, that I have actively dissuaded friends and family from careers in Law Enforcement, unless it’s a red county SO.
I've seen this trend growing in both the private and public sectors lately. Employers who show no loyalty or commitment whatsoever to their employees all of a sudden invoke honor, loyalty and commitment when a disgruntled employee decides to pack it in.
Perhaps the cop would have felt a little more commitment to the department if they had shown a little bit of commitment to him on the front side.
True. But something else to keep in mind is that NO’s population is 40% lower today than it was in 1960 … and most of the decline took place BEFORE Hurricane Katrina.
“The africanization of the cities continues at full speed”
And conservatives wonder why they are labled as racist.
I see an American who happens to be black.
All part of the Deep State plan to eliminate local and municipal police and replace them with a federal police force.
Think Gestapo or Stasi.
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