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Igel

(36,533 posts)

11. Sounds like "city fail."

Reply to Roy Rolling (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 11, 2025, 08:01 PM

Jan 11

This wasn't a decision by the NOPD. It was done by the NOHSEP.

Unless you want the governor to take full control over all preparations for everything in NOLA because you think the mayor and civilian city government there are so incompetent that a (R) governor can do better and must do more than send in some state troopers to help patrol.

Personally, I think the police probably did okay. (Although some are criticizing them because they shot the killer when video shows they didn't need to; a police review cleared them and properly so, I think. The only drawback is that they can't interrogate him and find out if he had contacts in Egypt or Montreal, where he'd visited in the previous year.)

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Criminal negligence hueymahl Jan 11 #14