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"T James" |
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29 Sep 2005 10:05:04 PM |
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Compass' Departure as New Orleans Chief 'Right, but not enough,' says SAF |
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COMPASS' DEPARTURE AS NEW ORLEANS CHIEF 'RIGHT,
BUT NOT ENOUGH,' SAYS SAF
BELLEVUE, WA -- The abrupt retirement announcement
Tuesday by New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie
Compass was "the right thing to do, but not enough,"
said Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) founder Alan M. Gottlieb.
"While the departure of Chief Compass may begin a
healing process that needs to occur between the police
and law-abiding gun owners whose firearms were
arbitrarily seized in the days after Hurricane Katrina,"
Gottlieb said, "there are many unanswered questions
about who actually issued the order to confiscate guns,
and the public has a right to know. New Orleans police
officers, visiting officers from other jurisdictions and
peace officers in surrounding parishes didn't just
collectively dream up that confiscation effort.
"It was almost laughable," Gottlieb noted, "that right
after SAF and the National Rifle Association joined forces
in federal court to successfully stop the gun seizures, Mayor
Ray Nagin's office scrambled to distance itself from the
statements made by Compass and Deputy Chief Warren
Riley that only police would be allowed to have guns,
and that everyone else would be disarmed. It is disturbing
that Nagin so quickly named Riley as interim chief."
Gottlieb acknowledged that the gun confiscations were merely
the "last straw" in terms of Compass' final weeks as police chief.
Under his watch, New Orleans saw its murder rate climb, and there
were continuing problems of corruption within the department.
Topping it off, he observed, were the desertions of officers
from their posts, and reports that some officers even
participated in the looting that followed Katrina.
"Yet, the problem remains," he said, "that nobody has
admitted to being the source of the disarmament order. If it
was Ray Nagin, he needs to come clean, although he's been
so busy trying to blame every other Katrina failure on
everybody else, it is doubtful he would ever admit issuing
an order to take everyone's guns. If it was Chief Compass,
then he ought to say so. If that order came from somewhere
else, such as the governor's office or the state office of
emergency services, Louisiana residents are entitled to
that information.
"SAF and the NRA went to court to make sure this kind of
thing never happens again," Gottlieb stated. "Finding out who
is responsible for originally issuing the order is paramount.
Leadership takes backbone. I don't see much of either right
now in New Orleans."
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