Eddie Compass
Eddie Compass
Edwin P. Compass, III is a former Chief of Police of the New Orleans Police Department...
couple gangsters recognized
A couple of the gangsters recognized me and said, get (him),
hand leadership man position time
Every man in a leadership position must know when it's time to hand over the reins,
information
The information I had at the time, I thought it was credible.
since
Since I was a little boy, my whole life, I wanted to be the superintendent of police,
department hand leadership man position served taken time toughest
I served this department for 26 years and have taken it through some of the toughest times of its history. Every man in a leadership position must know when it's time to hand over the reins.
people rush shoot shooting toward
People would be shooting at us, and we couldn't shoot back because of the families. All we could do is rush toward the flash.
human life paramount people power
Right now, human life is paramount so I'm concentrating all my power on getting out people who want to leave,
commit officers suicide worried
I had two officers commit suicide because they were worried about their families,
logistics order
We have our logistics in order and the patrols are going very well.
care people
We got 30,000 people out of the Superdome and we're going to take care of you.
thousands
thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.
forces mandatory people thousands
We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.
continue
We continue to get better day by day,
charge juice physically stay street
we had no juice to charge the batteries. We had to physically stay on the street to keep in touch.