We're happy our efforts with the Criminal Intelligence Bureau are paying off.
There are, to our surprise, thousands of people still in the city that we're trying to identify and locate. We're trying to convince them there's nothing for them here no food, no jobs, nothing to let them live the way they're used to.
Look, some men have left our ranks because they couldn't deal with this catastrophe.
It is a critical factor for us that we have no additional money.
Some left because they simply couldn't handle the catastrophe.
We have taken efforts to change the culture of this department. We take our integrity very, very seriously.
We have some gang individuals we consider thugs back. But we don't see the original groups they had. We do have a group of drug dealers that have come back, but they aren't organized yet.
We advise people that this city has been destroyed, it has completely been destroyed.
There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes to go to, no hotels. There is nothing here.
The regulation says that if you leave the job for a period of 14 days without communication you can be terminated. I don't think they have the right to a civil service appeal.
This isn't representative of our department. We had a lot of heroes that stepped up after the storm.
This is a culmination of intelligence we've been able to track back and fourth between here and Houston.
It's still ongoing, but we hope to have a conclusion within a few weeks.
That has posed some problems with people talking over each other. We probably have 20 agencies on one channel right now.
They were terminated due to them abandoning the department prior to the storm. They either left before the hurricane or 10 to 12 days after the storm and we have never heard from them.
The investigation does in fact show police officers with some items.
I think New Orleans will probably be reduced from 480,000. I doubt if we'll have 350,000 people in this city in five years.