New Orleans Police Dept. shirt scandal ironed out

Not so fast, there subby.. From this afternoon:

Police Chief and attorney spar over cop who wore the wrong uniform (new window)

Its time for a Farkette shirt scandal. Happy naked day chiquitas.

It's nice to know we have our priorities in order. Now, when NOPD officers are filmed assaulting a citizen, we won't be concerned with what color shirt they're wearing.

For crying out loud, aren't there more pressing issues to deal with?

farkMcFark:For crying out loud, aren't there more pressing issues to deal with?

I see what you did there.

how ironic

I don't understand why they're getting so steamed about this.

El_Swino:I don't understand why they're getting so steamed about this.

It's because the public is viewing the wrinkles of the justice system.

farkMcFark:For crying out loud, aren't there more pressing issues to deal with?

Not until they smooth out this issue first.

I don't see why everyone's getting so steamed. He was just flat-out giving respect to his fallen comrades.

Well hopefully no new wrinkles appear in all this mess...

vicejay:New Orleans Police Dept. shirt scandal ironed out

Not so fast, there subby.. From this afternoon:

Police Chief and attorney spar over cop who wore the wrong uniform (new window)

after reading that, methinks the Police Chief and that particular police officer may have not gotten along and that's how all this started

El_Swino:I don't understand why they're getting so steamed about this.

They don't cotton to insubordination in New Orleans.

Well, this new lenient punishment is in starch contrast to the earlier, harsher punishment.

/stretching it

It's true, the cop was out of uniform:



/should be suspended
//or promoted

Ummm....the very fabric of our justice system was strained by this miscreant.

Manfred J. Hattan:El_Swino:I don't understand why they're getting so steamed about this.

They don't cotton to insubordination in New Orleans.

Well, it's not like this one incident would destroy the city's social fabric.

Too bad they aren't smart enough to turn this into a positive,it seems so stupid to get this kind of nationwide publicity for such a minor issue. The guy served 35 years. Of course, 35 years on NOPD probably means he is as corrupt as any of them. What was that movie with Ned Beatty and Randy Quaid? Widows and Orphans Fund, indeed.

A reprimand is considered reasonable? How about an apology?

I'd glad they could button this up before the department was torn to shreds.

El_Swino:I don't understand why they're getting so steamed about this.

Yeah, no use getting hot under the collar.

when you become a public employee, you have to check in your brain at the door.

Somone needs to shoot those morons.

Anyone else think 'sartorial' is a word only fancy-pantses use?

soni
when you become a public employee, you have to check in your brain at the door.

Somone needs to shoot those morons morans.

ftfy

Uniforms are a critical part of the discipline of a paramilitary organization like a police department, instilling a sense of loyalty and camaraderie, said John Penny, a criminologist at Southern University of New Orleans.

No wonder they act like thugs.

Put them in the costume and they play the role...

BlackArt:Uniforms are a critical part of the discipline of a paramilitary organization like a police department, instilling a sense of loyalty and camaraderie, said John Penny, a criminologist at Southern University of New Orleans.

No wonder they act like thugs.

Put them in the costume and they play the role...

Something about John Penny of SUNO sounds vaguely anti-authority...

That said, the Us and Them mindset which permeates modern law enforcement is a sign of the decay of our current society.

This half-T-Shirt scandal has me in a wad.

NOLA female cop to child at restaurant murder scene. To child witness, Did you see who killed your parents?" Child to cop, "Yes you did."

In a chinese restaurant a long time ago.

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute:This half-T-Shirt scandal has me in a wad.

Here's the video (new window), and there's much more.

Guidry said he intended to wear powder blue, and not the post-Katrina black uniform, in order to honor officers killed the line of duty.

He is a liar then. Glad he isnt doing it in court now. Because blue doesnt homor the dead any better than black does. Black shoqws more respect at funerals though.

Here is how I think t went down. The guy had a bee in his bonnet about the black uniform. He was old school. But you cant just wear whatever the hell you want and be a cop. The public has to know who the uniform cops are on sight every time. So he knows he cant just wear the old one and do his job. Guidry has short timers disease and a case of the redass over his uniform and his last day rolls around and he tries to get a dig in about the uniform. He figures :What are they gonna do? Fire me on my last day?" So he goes ahead and wears the old uniform. He gigures maybe they'll look the other direction or send him home for the right uniform as a worst case scenario. He would get the dig and the last laugh either way and be gone. A winner.

Apparantly his boss didnt get laid the night before or had been having issues with discipline or whatever. But he didn't much care for Guidry's dig so he sent it right through the normal disciplinary procedures instead of the good-ol-boy protocol. Once Guidry was in the stadard disciplinary system he was in it with no good-ol-boy escape route. You cant have loopholes in the official system. so now Guidry's only chance of retiring clean is via media and political intervention. And he'd better have been a clean motherfarker, because his record is being gone over with a fine toothed comb right now for all the media heat.


Anyway that's the scenario I think is most likely.

Just to add some additional clarity on this issue:

In the last week, another NOPD officer was suspended, this time for driving at 90+mph on a crowded bridge, not stopping for bridge police, almost running over said bridge officers with his pickup, and then slapping one of the officers in the face when he arrived at the station.

His reason for behaving so inappropriately? He was "late to work."

Link to his story here (new window).

He and Sgt. Guidry both broke laws/rules... but they were given the same punishments. THAT'S why so many people in NOLA are up in arms about this incident.

/throw in some racial tension
//proud to call it home

BlueJayAggie: But they're cops. They're above the law, unless it's a rule internal to the dept.

But srsly, it shouldn't have escalated beyond making the guy change.

You know who else had black uniforms?

/how am I the first...?

What is it about bureaucracies, that they always seem to implement various policies and procedures before putting them through the "laugh test" first?

Head Bureaucrat: We need to do this, that and the other.
Underlings: Okey-dokey!
Rest of the world: Ah HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *gasp* HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Head Bureaucrat: Oh - we didn't mean it that way. This is what we meant. Yeah! That's it!


/offered a job in a bureaucracy just this week
//turned it down - wouldn't last 3 hours before telling someone they're an idiot