New Orleans Ghost Police

This guy has an imitation-Drudge news page, but it's all Louisiana news.

Please keep in mind, this is unconfirmed pending further evidence.

"It's pretty much always been known, but never openly acknowledged, that NOPD's actual numbers were far below the "official" figure of 1500 - 1700," said the source.

"To get that number over 1500, and thus qualify for federal funding, Compass and his predecessors counted reservists and certain retirees as active duty officers. The REAL number is, and has been for some time, a lot closer to 1000."

If this is true, I guess we all know that this goes on all over the place, not just in Louisiana.

A huge culprit is the stupid residency requirement that troubled cities enact for police officers. When I lived in a city, I thought it was great because the streets that cops lived on tended to be quieter.
But then I spoke to some city cops I knew, who told me that the requirement had put so much pressure on hiring from a small pool, that guys they had arrested years earlier were now their brothers in uniform, and they didn't like it one bit.

posted by Laura. at 07:45 PM

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