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To: combjelly who wrote (250942)	9/11/2005 9:22:10 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

Sure, Reuters... alertnet.org

To: combjelly who wrote (250942)	9/12/2005 1:15:19 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574096

"If 2/3 of Nagin's police force bailed out on him," Got a link on that? The only figures I've seen indicate it was a couple of hundred. At least some of those were trapped in their homes by the flood. Same net effect, but... Of course, that's an exaggeration. The NOPD estimated it lost at least 200 officers.....roughly 1/8 of their 1600 total force: STORM AND CRISIS: LAW ENFORCEMENT; Police Quitting, Overwhelmed by Chaos By JOSEPH B. TREASTER; SUSAN SAULNY CONTRIBUTED REPORTING FROM BATON ROUGE, LA., FOR THIS ARTICLE, AND JOHN DESANTIS FROM NEW ORLEANS. (NYT) 1108 words Late Edition - Final , Section 1 , Page 1 , Column 1 DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 1108 WORDS - Reeling from the chaos of this overwhelmed city, at least 200 New Orleans police officers have walked away from their jobs and two have committed suicide, police officials said on ... Some officers told their superiors they were leaving, police officials said. Others worked for a while and then stopped... query.nytimes.com