Everything was embellished, everything was exaggerated. If one guy said he saw six bodies, then another guy the same six, and another guy saw them - then that became 18. |
Everything was embellished, everything was exaggerated. If one guy said he saw six bodies, then another guy the same six, and another guy saw them — then that became 18. |
I think New Orleans will probably be reduced from 480,000. I doubt if we'll have 350,000 people in this city in five years. |
It is a critical factor for us that we have no additional money. |
It's still ongoing, but we hope to have a conclusion within a few weeks. |
Look, some men have left our ranks because they couldn't deal with this catastrophe. |
Some left because they simply couldn't handle the catastrophe. |
That has posed some problems with people talking over each other. We probably have 20 agencies on one channel right now. |
The investigation does in fact show police officers with some items. |
The regulation says that if you leave the job for a period of 14 days without communication you can be terminated. I don't think they have the right to a civil service appeal. |
There are, to our surprise, thousands of people still in the city that we're trying to identify and locate. We're trying to convince them there's nothing for them here — no food, no jobs, nothing to let them live the way they're used to. |
There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes to go to, no hotels. There is nothing here. |
They were terminated due to them abandoning the department prior to the storm. They either left before the hurricane or 10 to 12 days after the storm and we have never heard from them. |
This is a culmination of intelligence we've been able to track back and fourth between here and Houston. |
This isn't representative of our department. We had a lot of heroes that stepped up after the storm. |