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September 5, 2005
Harricane Katrina: Of 1500 New Orleans Cops, Less than 500 Didn't Abandon the Job
Unbelievable... from a press conference.
Q: One quick follow-up. Is it fair to say, using the convention center as an example, that one reason it took until Friday to get aid in is the National Guard needed time to build up a response team with military police to ensure law and order because the New Orleans Police Department had degraded so much?GEN. BLUM: That is not only fair, it is accurate. You've concisely stated exactly what was needed, and I told you why. We took the time to build the right force. The outcome was superb. No lives hurt, nobody injured. It was done almost invisibly.
Q: And you estimate there's about a third of the New Orleans Police Department left. Do you remember about how many are in the New Orleans Police Department?
GEN. BLUM: On a normal day they should have 1,500 paid officers in New Orleans, give or take. Some people have said it's 1,650. It's in the rough order of 1,500-man police force, and I think the mayor told me they're down to less than 500.
HT: Michelle Malkin
Posted by John Bambenek at September 5, 2005 12:38 PM
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bush should of did something about it before it got werse.
Posted by: Michael Allison at March 14, 2006 1:14 PM
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