One example of why a New Orleans cop "deserted"

[Windy]

I'm not sure how representitive it is of the other people who "left the force". I know it's important to keep order, but kicking a guy off the force in the middle of a crisis because he went to rescue is grandma?

After the evacuees left the Superdome and he heard his mother, 76, and grandmother, 103, were in a hospital, he hurried to retrieve them and move them to a relative's home.

While he was doing that, his supervisor called his cell phone. "He told me it was very noble and honorable to take care of my grandmother, but if I was not at roll call in 10 minutes, I was fired."

Mitchell said he struggled to get back to the police station, but when he arrived, "he told me to go home. He said, 'We don't need your service.' He said as far as he was concerned, I was fired." Until charges are formally brought, he is back on the force but relegated to handing out used clothes to fellow officers still working round the clock.

[Roxy]

He told me it was very noble and honorable to take care of my grandmother, but if I was not at roll call in 10 minutes, I was fired."

Wow, talk about bad management. I wonder if his boss thought that would make him get back there quicker, since he was clearly not in a situation where he could afford to lose officers.

Ridiculous.

[sunny]

hhmmmmm - wonder what they will do about the Chief of Police. I mean, given the fact that HE was in Baton Rouge while his men were out trying to protect the city.