I suppose that they signed on to roust drunks, issue speeding tickets and intervene in the occasional domestic disturbance, but it still takes me aback to learn that over 200 policemen simply up and quit the people of New Orleans. Any wonder why things were in such a mess they needed the Army?
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER Published: September 4, 2005
P. Edwin Compass III, the superintendent of police, said most of his officers were staying at their posts. But in an unusual note of sympathy for a top police official, he said it was understandable that many were frustrated. He said morale was "not very good."
"If I put you out on the street and made you get into gun battles all day with no place to urinate and no place to defecate, I don't think you would be too happy either," Mr. Compass said in an interview. "Our vehicles can't get any gas. The water in the street is contaminated. My officers are walking around in wet shoes."
I am unaware of how you came to determine this to be "an unusual note of sympathy from a top police official", Mr. Treaster, for even a casual glance at the usual reponse to ANY officer malfeasance is to circle the wagons, obfuscate, commiserate, deny, then when all else fails, reluctantly deal with the miscreants. Yes, it is a terrible state of affairs when one has "no place to urinate and no place to defecate", they could have, and i guess many finally DID simply run from the gunbattles, and while I can't help you with the gasoline problem I would strongly recommend a change of wet shoes and socks for dry ones. Does wonders for the attitude and please don't tell me they had no way of obtaining such items, as police and military personel have been dealing with this for thousands of years and it's never been a deal breaker to walk around with a little squish now and again.
Still cannot decide which is worse; the writing, or the whining, but I do suppose that a good editor could have dealt with the horrid writing far easier than even a good chief of police could have handled the members of law enforcement obviously unsuited for this line of work. Then again, the lefties have been complaining and criticizing everything else, so why not this as well. Don't be surprised to see headlines screaming that "BLACK POLICEMAN COULD NO LONGER KILL THEIR OWN AND RAN AWAY", subtitled, "And of course it's all Bush's fault".
PS: They WILL hire all of them back. Guaranteed. But I'd save the particularly odious for the ones who stopped and complained to Gerry Rivers...sorry, I knew him long before he became Geraldo.
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