Kenneth Brown
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This is from a freind of mine that is working in NO. He was a Montgomery county cop way back. He then had about 15 years working for the Texas prison system. He has since been a warden for some of the private prisons and worked at other LEO venues as well. He is currently working as a Level III security guard in NO. He's a little harsh but walking in his shoes will do that to ya. Well here it is-<br /><br />New Orleans: The complete cesspool I figured it would be<br /><br />Hey all, I am back for a while from that cesspool called New Orleans. Folks, the newspapers are not doing it justice, it is a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY south of Interstate 10. No man's land after dark. Businesses are up and running in places, but close right after dark.<br />I was living, courtesy of my employer, in a combination crack ***** hotel/homeless shelter where we all slept with our weapons. One room still had some blood splatter on the ceiling from a well placed head shot some **** put on one of his ladies a week before we all arrived there. I kid you not.<br /><br />New Orleans PD deserves all the bad press it gets, plus some. That is the MOST WORTHLESS bunch of police officers I have EVER seen. USELESS. Their new acronym for NOPD is Not Our Problem Dude. They stole most of the guns, jewelry, money, cars and everything else that wasn't nailed down before they punched out and left their brother officers holding the bag in a sinking city. They are about 1/3 staffed now since they fired the ones who bothered to show back up after the storm. Some are still AWOL, and probably either living in Houston or Dallas or San Antonio as the drug dealers they really were in New Orleans. Some are dead, drowned trying to do their job and help save people, and haven't been found yet. Some killed themselves when they couldn't take the Hiroshima-like damage and destruction they saw, day in and day out. <br /><br />There are hundreds of acres of still-unsearched rubble there, and driving through it you can smell Death everywhere. There are still somewhere around 1,000 people missing. I know where some of them are, they're under the rubble. They are finding one or two here, one or two there, a couple of times a week, but it's not news anywhere outside NO.<br /><br />Strangely enough, you hear stories about the "drowning victims" with bullet holes in them. More looters were shot than will EVER be known, but oh well. The looters did most of the damage to the city, the water did the rest. What they couldn't steal, they burned or just tore up.<br /><br />It will take years to get Louisiana back to pre-Katrina/Rita days. And there are communities you never heard about: Chalmette, Meroux, Violet, Belle Chasse, Cameron, Holly Beach, the list goes on and on. These places were pretty much destroyed, with Cameron and Holly Beach completely obliterated.<br /><br />"Chocolate City" Ray Nagin is one of the most reviled people in the city, hated by everyone except the career welfare recipients and the benefactors of the corruption in that city. He is a complete joke.<br /><br />I have finally managed to get hooked up with a new laptop and wireless Internet access so I can stay connected with the real world. I probably will post more about New Orleans and Lake Charles, where my team has been redeployed recently. Compared to New Orleans, Lake Charles is a teeming metropolis with restaurants that are actually open, and people who smile and are courteous and friendly. I hate to offend you native Louisianians, but New Orleans SUCKS, and everything south of I-10 needs to be pushed into the Mississippi River and turn that land into a park. The gangsters are slowly returning to town, and they have started killing each other in NO again. NOPD will want to thank the gangs in Houston, Dallas and other areas for killing as many as they could before they got a chance to come back to town. me and my guys thank them too, that's a few less we have to deal with.<br /><br />Big Freaky over and out.
