Same BS went down in LA after the Rodney King riots. Affirmative Action cost the city millions in corruption lawsuits as former gang members were recruited as cops.

Here is audio from the Tony Snow Radio Show

It was in the WSJ opinion page's Political Diary today, too.

Yeah, shades of Ramparts.

That's what happened when the Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C. started. Back in the fifties and sixties, many were hired who were from Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It was a tough and clean police department. Then in the nineties the city brought the residence and hiring requirements closer into D.C. All those "yankees" were retiring. Look at M.P.D.C., today, next to New Orleans, it is one of the worst departments in the U.S.A. in all factors.

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I visited the official NO web sites and the links to the Police Dept don't work, so I searched some more and found the site below. Check out how many officers they claim to have, and check out recruiters last name.

I also find it interesting that according to the AP and NOLA that NO has 3.14 cops per 100,000 residents.
If you take the latest population figures and do the math that shows that they have approx. 1470 cops.
I find it suspicious that if you add the AWOL cops you suddenly come close to the 1700 they claim to have.

The way I understand it, the MPD really started going into the toilet during the reign of Mayor-for-Life Marion Barry in the '80s, especially with a "hiring initiative" that relaxed police standards to the point where you could become a cop even if you had an extensive juvenile criminal record.

Is it just me, or is "Eddie Compass" the perfect name for a crooked cop in a hard-boiled detective novel. "Yeah, that Eddie Compass, he knows which way the wind blows."

We don't play this game in Los Angeles, although attempts have been made. A big portion of the LAPD lives in Simi Valley. Simi, by no small coincidence, regularly appears on the FBI's list of safest communities in its population size category.

This is true for not just white cops but a lot of the Latino and black LAPD officers as well. What cop in his right mind would willingly choose to live in a location his profession tells him is a barbarian stronghold?

Yeah, and while up at West Point teaching last summer, we did all our bar-crawling in Newburgh. Come to find out a lot of the NYPD lives around there, we had detectives picking up our tabs when they hear we were Iraq vets.

Now downtown Newburgh looks like Baghdad, but the suburbs are nice.

Sgt. Dan, I was just at West Point for the ISU/Army football game. I stayed over by Middletown, but we drove through Newburgh to get to the game. Beautiful country up there, but unfortunately you're correct about the Newburgh hood. It looked a LOT like Gary Indiana to me.

check out recruiters last name

Good catch.

I also find it interesting that according to the AP and NOLA that NO has 3.14 cops per 100,000 residents

Well, you know what they say about Pi -- it always pops up in unexpected places...