56 ordspråk av Eddie Compass
Eddie Compass
I served this department for 26 years and have taken it through some of the toughest times of its history. Every man in a leadership position must know when it's time to hand over the reins.
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I will ask you to respect my privacy, respect my decision and just respect my right to be by myself.
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I'll be going on in another direction God has for me.
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I'm still standing. I'm the ultimate warrior, ... I'm going to be the last person to leave the battlefield.
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In the annals of history, no police force in the history of the world was asked to do what we were asked.
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it is of vital importance to the citizens of New Orleans to maintain integrity in the process of distributing contracts, and such integrity is best achieved by promoting a transparent process.
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Little babies [are] getting raped,
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Not one of my deputy chiefs left, ... We had 150 officers trapped in eight feet of water. It wasn't 150 desertions. We were fighting odds that you could not imagine. We had no food. We had no water. We ran out of ammunition. We were fighting in waist-deep water.
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Once the voluntary evacuation has taken place, we will concentrate our resources and our forces on the mandatory evacuation.
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Once they all are out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.
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Once they are all out,
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Once we look at the people face-to-face and start explaining these things, ... I think we won't have any problems.
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Our officers have been urinating and defecating in the basement of Harrah's Casino, ... They have been going in stores to feed themselves.
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People would be shooting at us, and we couldn't shoot back because of the families. All we could do is rush toward the flash.
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Right now, human life is paramount so I'm concentrating all my power on getting out people who want to leave,
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