"Police looting" is not true...more media hype!

Well that's certainly good to know. That internet blog that was cited on the police looting doesn't even qualify as "media" to me though - it's some guy with a computer! :p Blogs are a good way to find out something noone else knows... and never even happened! :D
 
What FOX news showed seemed to be NOPD officers looting with shopping carts, dereliction of duty, failure to act and acts of omission. The female officer I saw was a felon with a badge.
 
I think it was NewsMax reporting cops pushing carts full of computers out of dark stores...

Hope it is just hype, BUT this area of the country has had the most corrup departments known in the last few years, Feds had to go in and clean out most of entire precincts which put real pressure on hiring and not sure the standards were maintained vs the numbers needed.....
 
Louisiana is, ummm, colorful. I can still recall a Gubernatorial election billed as a choice between the Klan (former Grand Dragon running) and the Crook (some guy who had been the subject of multiple Federal bribery trials). The bumper stickers read "Vote for the Crook!". :( Funny in a way if you don't live there, but not so funny if that's your state.

I too *hope* the cops aren't looting down there...
 
cop6lu.jpg

Yep, looks like official police business to me.
 
In a story that contained some of the text of that one in the picture, it said that the cop had taken a "Compaq computer"; in the above text it says "compact computer."

When stuff like that is all-but-verbatim, and contains that kind of a miss in the type, I have to wonder just how such a deviation even occurred. I mean, was someone dictating the text to someone else over the telephone, and it got mis-heard?? :confused:


Anyway, I love it how some are quick to impugn cops, and others are quick to exonerate them, even when evidence is presented, and eyewitness accounts given. :rolleyes:

Let's remember some of the hiring practices of some departments, like Washington, D.C., that hire people with all sorts of criminal records to be cops. I've read about them (can't quote chapter and verse), and so I don't wonder hard how it comes to be that cops can turn into common looting scum when the opportunity arises.

The only thing is, WHY ARE THEY SO STUPID AS TO ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE SEEN IN UNIFORM LOOTING DVDs AND COMPUTERS?!

Is this really how freakin' stupid they are?!


-blackmind
 
The other thread was closed because the "blogger" was just not credible. Other than the fact that we don't know where he got electricity or internet connection in the middle of New Orleans, he actually claimed the Cops were begging ammunition from people in the streets because they were running low! :rolleyes:
Rich
 
in regards to that picture....how do you know he didn't pay for that stuff?

or perhaps he nabbed some kid stealing it and is bringing it back to the store. a picture means nothing without context. I don't care how good at deduction you think you are, without context evidence is useless


doesn't anyone watch CSI? :p
 
Cops in NOLA have been convicted of murder, so a cop walking off with a plasma TV is pretty tame in comparison.
 
Cops in plenty of municipalities have been convicted of murder and other heinous crimes. New Orleans is nothing special; there is corruption in every single walk of life and unfortunately when cops are concerned a few bad eggs give the rest a bad name.
 
In what way? What evidence is there to show that there's more corruption in the NOPD than, say, Chicago's (one of the most corrupt cities in the nation), Detroit's, DC's, Atlanta's, or LA's?

And once again, not a single on of us has any proof that any of this has actually happened. That picture means absolutely nothing without context. Blogs are never news and anyone taking them as such might as well strap on a tinfoil hat and hope Major League Baseball's satellites are too busy to spy on their thoughts.

People need to start looking at the world with a little bit of logic and a lot more common sense.
 
Actually, I'd put all of those in the special category. So, thanks for identifying them.

As for the caveats about waiting for reports, I haven't taken a position on whether the looting is going on. I find it hard to believe that an officer would take "loot" from a person and return it to where it will be looted again. As for his having "paid" for it, how exactly would he do so given that the workers have evacuated or are in the process, and the entire commercial infrastructure has broken down?
 
Redworm-
I, too, would prefer to give the NOPD benefit of the doubt on this. That's why I closed the original thread. Unfortunately, information is starting to come out from credible news sources.

As to waiting until there is "proof", are you suggesting that opinions should be held until we each attend a trial? If so, should we not give all the rest of the citizens with carts full of goods the same "benefit of the doubt"? Perhaps they, too, bought or were simply returning these goods.

Rich
 
There's some interesting commentary on this subject in this blog, apparently being sent from downtown New Orleans. The police force seems to have stopped acting as an organized entity. :(

The blog makes interesting reading. Lord of the Flies, Planet of the Apes and Escape from New York all in one. . .

Cheers,
ErikM :D
 
....heard from a member of another board who is former NO leo, personally knew the officer in the pic, and doubted ENTIRELY the aspersions cast at him. IOW, considered THAT leo above reproach.....(hope so)
 
Nope, I mean proof as in something other than blogs. Though I did miss a comment in the article that movies were being loaded into those police trucks. If Walmart allows them to take supplies, that's fine. But they should be taking what they need, nothing more.

Are there other articles that I should see?
 
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