Now onto the NOPD.  Isn't this the same department that experienced some of the worst corruption in the last 20 years?  Perhaps the city leaders did not do the job they promised by weeding out departmental corruption.  The actions of these 2 criminals in uniform certainly lend to this assumption.

Brandon,

I believe you are now piling the BS pretty high.

I merely refer you back to the original post I had a problem with you about:...

Yes, Brandon, self loathing or not it ...

It seems very odd, I simply wrote the description of the officers, nothing was meant to be inferred or read into it, but already TWO of you that are caucasian seemed to have read into it your own prejudices and inferred that it was an attack on the officers race and ethnicity.  Had I wanted to make a point about that I would have capitalized it or made a comment regarding that issue.

I highly suggest that you READ posts as given and not make assumptions about what is being written.

Funny, but it isn't my true colors that were flown, I made no attack on the officers for their race or ethinicity, I made the attack based on the fact that they were OFFICERS IN FULL UNIFORM that were LOOTING!  It is you who made the inference out of your own prejudices/racism.  Once again Brandon, it seems to me that you have a REAL problem with minorites.

It is perhaps worth noting that NOPD apparently requires applicants to pass a pre-employment polygraph examination:

http://www.nopdonline.com/rec.htm

Dimas wrote:

Ummm...wasn't it you who assailed me in another thread for commentary with regard to the discrepancy in some departments about gender and ethnicity?  Thanks for flying your colors.  Next time be more careful before damning me with the label of racist.      

Who knows what they were gonna do with the things that they took. For all we know they could have had kids at home with no food. I know that they are police officers and they should expected higher standards and what not but desperate times call for desperate measure. Judging that they were "robbing" or stealing for a bad reason may possibly be our subconcsious  telling us that we are judging them because they were black. 

...two black female police officers

Dimas;
 
Just like the people on this board to assume the two officers were looting for their own personal benefit. Does anyone know what was put in the cart? Keep this in mind. The command structure and centralization is nonexintent because of no ccommunications  Officers are commandeering cars from showrooms so they can perform police duites but you people on here will assume they are stealing them.  I for one will give them the benefit  of the doubt and assume the goods were 
necessary for them to perform their duties.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=...

'Times-Picayune' Announces New Home -- in Houma -- and Reports Looting by Cops and Firemen

By E&P Staff

Published: August 30, 2005 6:25 PM ET

NEW YORK The battered Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which evacuated its downtown office this afternoon, posted a simple note to it staffers on its Web site late this afternoon: "We are working at the Houma Courier for a few days. If you have news, call 985-850-1182. We plan to set up a longer term newsroom in Baton Rouge. Call the Advocate to find out where we are."

Meanwhile, two staffers published a story on one of the Web site's blogs, reporting on the looting in the city -- joined in by cops and firemen who had been called to the scene.

Other reports, and TV footage, have shown brazen looting at many sites around the city. One compared the current climate in the increasingly desperate city to "Sodom and Gomorrah."

One looter shot a local police officer, but Tuesday night word came that the officer was expected to survive.

At the Times-Picayune Web site, Mike Perlstein and Brian Thevenot wrote that at a Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas Street, mass looting broke out after a giveaway of supplies was announced at that location. While some did indeed carry away food and essentials, others "cleared out jewelry racks and carted out computers, TVs, and appliances on handtrucks. Some officers joined in taking whatever they could, including one New Orleans cop who loaded a shopping cart with a compact computer and a 27-inch flat screen television.

"Throughout the store and parking lot, looters pushed carts and loaded trucks and vans alongside officers. One man said police directed him to Wal-Mart from Robert's Grocery, where a similar scene was taking place. A crowd in the electronics section said one officer broke the glass DVD case so people wouldn't cut themselves.

"The police got all the best stuff. They're crookeder than us," one man said. Most officers, though, simply stood by powerless against the tide of law breakers.

One veteran officer said, "It's like this everywhere in the city. This tiny number of cops can't do anything about this. It's wide open."

Some groups, the reporters wrote, "organized themselves into assembly lines to more efficiently cart off goods. Inside the store, one woman was stocking up on make-up. She said she took comfort in watching police load up their own carts. 'It must be legal,' she said. 'The police are here taking stuff, too.'"

Dimas,

While I agree that the actions of these two police officers is deplorable, I don't see how their race and sex are of relevance.

It is perhaps worth noting that NOPD apparently requires applicants to pass a pre-employment polygraph examination:

http://www.nopdonline.com/rec.htm

Dimas;
 
Just like the people on this board to assume the two officers were looting for their own personal benefit…