Eddie Compass
Eddie Compass
Edwin P. Compass, III is a former Chief of Police of the New Orleans Police Department...
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What we're doing is trying to make the best of a bad situation, and we need people to cooperate,
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Once they all are out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.
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Not one of my deputy chiefs left, ... We had 150 officers trapped in eight feet of water. It wasn't 150 desertions. We were fighting odds that you could not imagine. We had no food. We had no water. We ran out of ammunition. We were fighting in waist-deep water.
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Every man in a leadership position knows when it's time to hand over reins to someone else. I'll be retiring as superintendent of police and will be going on in another direction God has for me.
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She called direct to him and said, 'What do you need?' He said people were sending stuff, but it wasn't what they needed.
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At this time in the next 30 to 45 days, on a transition period, I will be retiring as the superintendent of police and I will be going on in another direction God has for me.
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Once we look at the people face-to-face and start explaining these things, ... I think we won't have any problems.
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it is of vital importance to the citizens of New Orleans to maintain integrity in the process of distributing contracts, and such integrity is best achieved by promoting a transparent process.
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And some other individuals joined in. And they tried to grab me, ... But my guys pushed them back. And he got me into a vehicle and got me out of there. Yeah.
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I'll be going on in another direction God has for me.
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thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.
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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.
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we had no juice to charge the batteries. We had to physically stay on the street to keep in touch.
We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten,