The calm after the storm
by David Benzion · 09/15/2006 6:21 amHEADLINE: Brown to address New Orleans crime
New Orleans officials struggling with violence in the hurricane-devastated city have asked Lee Brown, former Houston mayor and police chief, to share his perspective.
Brown will be the keynote speaker Saturday at the City of New Orleans Crime Prevention Summit. Brown, who was Houston’s police chief during the 1980s and served as the national drug czar in the Clinton administration, now is chairman and CEO of the Brown Group International consulting firm.
“Given his experience being the national drug czar and former mayor … he would have a lot of value to contribute,” said Royce Duplessis, spokesman for New Orleans Councilman James Carter, a summit organizer.
Brown, who will get a $5,000 honorarium from the New Orleans Police Foundation, did not return calls.
[Hat-tip: Houston Chronicle]
Let the comments commence!
BONUS MATERIAL!
Sometimes “Art” isn’t created, it just occurs spontaneously. By way of example, is it not somehow a type of cosmic beauty that Lee P. Brown shares a page on the website of RAM Entertainment and Special Event Services with, among others…?
- Former Viceroy for Iraq L. Paul Bremer
- Powerhouse Miami Dolphins running back Larry Csonka
- CNBC commenter and Club for Growth co-founder Larry Kudlow
- Legendary Star of Screen and Stage Lauren Bacall
- Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger
I don’t know what it means, but surely it must mean something, right?
BONUS QUOTE
Excerpted from Lee P. Brown’s online bio:
In 1978, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson selected him to serve as Atlanta’s Commissioner of Public Safety. He was responsible for the City’s Police, Fire, Corrections, and Civil Defense Departments. It was in that position that Dr. Brown attracted the attention of the world as he calmly handled the investigation of the Atlanta Child Murders.
[Emphasis in bold added by LST]
He gets credit for this? Was there ever a choice? Has anyone, ever, seen Lee P. Brown act any way other than “calm”?
BONUS LEE P. BROWN TRIVIA WE COULDN’T MAKE UP IF WE TRIED
- What is Lee P. Brown’s favorite color?
- What is Lee. P. Brown’s favorite food?
- What is Lee P. Brown’s favorite quote?
- What is Lee P. Brown’s favorite time of year?
ANSWERS
- Brown
- Good home cooking
- “Stay in school and get a good education”
- Autumn
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Finally, we get to send some crap to N’Orlans.
If they are trying to finish off what the storm started, this may do it.
A second thought…
Lets see if they would like our police chief too.
That’s because there were too many buttons on the phone, and he couldn’t figure out how to use it.
#1 and #2 JORoberts
150,000 crackheads and thugs for Houston. New Orleans gets Leepy Brown.
I’m trying to figure out who got the worst deal.
They have also axed Priscilla Slade to speak on her recommendations for landscaping improvements to the city.
At some point these people have to realize how stupid they look.
maybe he is just pandering for a job.
#5 SOB
Sorry, dude (not THE dude, just “dude”).
I don’t think they have the intelligence to see how stupid they look.
Even Orleans, France is considering changing their names due to their namesakes.
Doen’t Katrina mean “Cleansing”? Then George Bush sent Rita. I think I recall Chocolate City Nagin was telling people to come back then. The US government had to step in and say NOOOOOOO….
I think Nagin is STUCK ON STUPID!!!
Wino,
You beat me to the punch with your answer to that SOB Gregg. I don’t believe they’ll ever realize how stupid they look because liberal guilt and political correctness (one in the same?) likely prevents honest comments from ever reaching the ears of black people like Leepy.
If they take Brown’s advice look for the New Orleans Police Chief to be out of town a lot.
if only someone WOULD “axe” Ms Slade… And Hurtt and Brown too.
The event will be sponsored by Red Bull energy drink. With LeeP speaking the audience will need all the help they can get to stay awake.
Mayor Nagin was obviously impressed with Lee P. Brown’s “one man operation” called the Brown Group International consulting firm that he hired (with kickbacks) Mr. Brown to provide his expertise in the field of crime fighting to give a speech in New Orleans. I got a copy of the consulting firm’s brochure and here is the “Top Ten” consulting services it provides:
1) The advantages of being “out-of-town” all the time. What and who you can avoid.
2) Public appearance techniques including how to avoid that “deer in the headlights look” plus speech therapy.
3) “Race Card” as the option of last resort. Play it or lose it.
4) Legalizing drugs and how it would make a police chief’s job easier.
5) Tokenism: How to be in the right place at the right time.
6) Being a “puppet” isn’t all that bad as long as you can get the work.
7) How “whitie” shortchanged the blacks.
9) How to turn incompetence into a consulting firm.
10) Black on black crime–What are its benefits.
I am pretty sure their are other services and areas of expertise that Lee P. “I wish I was permanently out-of-town” Brown can provide, so feel free to add to my list.
You’ens are all just jealous that a man of Mr. Brown’s credentials and intelligence, not to mention race, has had such an illustrious career and can command so much money for just telling people what he knows best….ie, crime.
The irony is just so…ironic.
The event’s sponsors are not only Red Bull, but also Colt Malt Lickuh.
You can’t fix STUPID
Did crime ever go down under Lee Brown’s watch in any position he ever held? Didn’t the best public safety program turn out to be getting Lee Brown away from public safety programs?
If New Orleans is really serious about getting rid of crime, hire Rudy Giulliani. I don’t care if he is a d*** Yankee. Hire him as a “crime consultant”
and do exactly what he says.
Things would get a lot better.
Now that I think about it, maybe that’s what Houston should do…
Lee P. is the right man for this mission. With $100B to spend in the Chocolate factory, you need a guy who has a lot of friends to let out contracts to.
Willy Wonka and Lee P. will have the factory running like a well oiled machine in no time.
Actually, Lee Brown had a thing for Nit Noi’s Thai restaurant.
Saw him there on several Martin Luther King Days.
The investigation of the first WTC bombing, which occurred in February 1993, was botched, contributing to the disaster of 9/11.
Brown was NYC’s public safety boss then and had been since some time in 1990. He became drug czar in June 1993.
Don Clark, whom you’ve seen on Ch. 2 talking about crime, was the Special Agent in Charge of the New York FBI office in 1993.
Maybe both of them were too “calm” about that investigation.
We could ‘ransom’ the Katrina ‘victims’ by sending them all back instead of Brown going to N.O.
I always thought he should be called Brown TI. Trained Idiot. I thought no-one could be this stupid without training.
Then I worked out how many Government pensions this clown receives. Smart as a fox.A perfect example of the Peter Principle.I am glad I do not have children where he ‘teaches’-what?
If they think LeePee can help them with their problems, then (insert smartass comment here).
I wonder what Leepy’s favorite Malt Lickuh is?
I remember Leepy giving an interview once when White Oak Bayou flooded. He looked into the camera, turned his back to it, pointed and said: “The watah goin’ down. And dat’s good.” Then he turned back and smiled with his big ole toothy grin.
He was Lanier’s sock puppet…….