New Orleans has a lot going on in the next 60 days, with the Super Bowl on Feb 9th and Mardi Gras on March 4th. The parades for Fat Tuesday will kick off shortly after Super Bowl, and the New Orleans Police Department has a huge role to play in each of those events.
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has a troubled past, with was highlighted during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Those problems led to multiple suits and court actions that resulted in a consent decree with DOJ that has cast an organizational pall on the department.
Those of us in law enforcement here in Louisiana used to quip that NOPD stood for Not Our Problem, Dude. The current leadership of that department engenders no confidence that much has changed. When called out about obvious flaws in her execution and planning, she gets testy. She didn't know that New Orleans had barricades. Why would she know these things? Not Her Problem, Dude.
Don't get me started on that dimwitted Assistant Special Agent in Charge who flatly proclaimed that a ramming incident by a guy carrying an ISIS flag was not a terrorist event. We'll let Kash Patel short her out in early February. She should be an object lesson for all the DEI folks in the FBI.
I am pleased at the street cops who ran towards gunfire. Shamdude didn't make two steps from his wrecked truck before he was well and truly ventilated.
I will be neither at the Super Bowl, nor at Mardi Gras in NOLA. I used to love going the Big Easy to take in the cuisine and the architecture, but since Katrina, the city has lost all allure for me.
5 comments:
Watch out for something AT the superbowl this year.
There's quite a bit of noise circulating at the moment, I believe there is a good signal there, too.
Grew up 60/40 N.O./Opelousas hearing the slogan "The city that care forgot." Didn't take long away as an adult at 18 that I thought it more accurately "The city that forgot to care."
Yeah, great to see those cops doing what for many is the opposite reaction. Too bad they weren't pointed out in the reporting as much as the LEO looters of storm past. The good folks deserve better.
But the A-SAIC's nose ring was so hip and on point...
Yep, they did good! The rest of the city, not so much...
The NOLA street cops, where the rubber-hits-the-road, did everything anybody could have asked of mortals. They are F-ing heroes.
Everybody else have been CYA, REMFs.
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