New Orleans P.D. took action against 45 officers and 6 civilian employees today. You must be kidding me? They could only find 51 officers who were firable?
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 28 — The beleaguered New Orleans Police Department on Friday fired 45 officers and six civilian employees accused of abandoning their posts while the city was descending into violent chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The firings, along with the resignations of another 15 officers, added to the woes of a department already reeling from the resignation of its chief and the scandals unleashed by videos of officers looting stores during the storm and the recent beating of a retired schoolteacher during an arrest in the French Quarter.
So a total of 45 officers and 6 civilian employees were terminated. However this explains it.
The 51 department members fired Friday have not faced a tribunal because they are missing and have not reported to their superiors.
Oh! So they could not fight back. No wonder they could only bag fifty-one. Wonder why the Union sacrificed those members? Could they be trying to save up for the next batch of 200+?
More firings could be in the offing, because 228 officers are still under investigation for failing to report to duty during the height of the crisis, said Capt. Marlon Defillo, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman. A tribunal composed of civilians and high-ranking police officials, which has yet to be empaneled, will hear the cases of officers accused of abandoning the force.
Well I think they are far short of the number that should be gone.
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