Police Chief Abruptly Resigns in New Orleans - New York Times: “The police superintendent of New Orleans, Edwin P. Compass III, abruptly resigned today, four weeks after Hurricane Katrina put the city under water and into chaos, with people who had stayed behind left for days to fend for themselves amid reports of looting and lawlessness.
Skip to next paragraph‘I served this department for 26 years and have taken it through some of the toughest times of its history,’ Mr. Compass said today at a news conference. ‘Every man in a leadership position must know when it’s time to hand over the reins. I’ll be going on in another direction that God has for me.’
Neither Mr. Compass nor Mayor C. Ray Nagin would say why the police commissioner was stepping down.
‘It’s a sad day in the city of New Orleans when a hero makes a decision like this,’ said Mr. Nagin, who appointed the chief in 2002, shortly after Mr. Nagin took office. ‘He leaves the department in pretty good shape and with a significant amount of leadership.’”
Reading between the lines, it sounds as if it was made clear to Mayor Nagin that Federal dollars would not be poured into city with demonstrably unsuccessful police leadership.
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