The Big, Easy-going Scholar
by David Benzion · 01/19/2007 6:14 amIt is almost too painful to read:
Former Mayor Lee Brown is headed to New Orleans to help the storm-ravaged city develop community-policing tactics he pioneered while he was Houston’s police chief back in the 1980s.
His consulting company, Brown Group International, will evaluate the New Orleans Police Department and help it improve its relationship with residents.
BGI’s specialties include public safety, homeland security, crisis management and government relations.
… Brown’s six-month consulting gig began earlier this month. Several New Orleans-based groups, including religious, business and civic organizations, are picking up the tab.
… After leaving the mayor’s office in 2002, Brown spent a year as a “scholar in residence” at Rice University writing a textbook on community policing. It has yet to be published. Brown said he’s done with the research, now he just needs to finish writing.
“It’s long overdue,” Brown said. “I would not give you a deadline. I’ve passed all the past deadlines.”
At least now he can show another city how it’s done before people there can refer to his book and figure it out for themselves.
[Courtesy the Houston Chronicle, emphasis in bold added by LST]
And you wonder why I beat my head.
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He didn’t pass the deadlines……he missed them!
I’m in New Orleans this morning, watched the local news last night. There is a very serious problem here with the police.
Nobody, I mean nobody trusts them. I wonder if marshal law will be used soon?
David, you should try to buy the domain http://www.headbeaters.com.
And remember to claim TM rights to your new, Shakey-inspired phrase:
And you wonder why I beat my head™
As if “The Big Easy” wasn’t wrecked enough already. Step one: reform the pension system.
It just shows to go ya; Everyone rises to his/her own level of incompetence! — Dilbert
Wonder how long it will take the good folks in NOLA to figure out they’ve been had in hiring Lee. P. Brown and group. BTW, who’s in the “group”?
God must be punishing New Orleans,
First, Katrina
Second, The Government’s response (Local, State, and Federal) to #1
Third, Brad and Angelina have decided to make New Orleans their new home.
Fourth, Lee Brown is going to help them.
I am not sure the folks of New Orleans deserve these burdens.
Simple
4 Dave,
Before Dilbert, That was actually called the “Peter Principle”.
Simple
I guess Mayor Nagin wants to maintain the city’s image of “Chocolate City” by hiring Lee. P. Brown as a consultant. More incompetence on Nagin’s part but what did you expect. The people elected him and now they are stuck with him. And we thought all the criminals via Katrina were still here in Houston. I guess there is plenty to go around.
I was in the store last night and saw a can of red beans on the shelf. The label said “New Orleans Style”. I wondered if they were stolen…
Scholar….Brown….same sentence….must hold head….about to explode….aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh….
When I lived there they were kicking around an ordinance that all city employees had to live in Orleans Parish and all new hires must be
Now I cannot recall (I know you are lurking BJ and NEO) but if this went through the police force would technically be from the residents therefore improving relations with themselves.
Or should they fight crime
either way its all good
New Orleans lost a lot of its tax base back in the 80s when the whites made a huge exitous out of Orleans Parish into neighboring Jefferson Parish. There’s a reason why Sheriff Harry Lee is still in office after (probably) 30 years. He’s earned the trust of his constituents.
I’ve tried for two days to post to LST. Guess my comments are not worthy.
Am I banned from LST? If so I’ll drop you from my reading list.
what a JOKE its all about the $$$$ Lee P and Nagin will have fat pockets fo sho
#7 Simple, Yes I knew that, but I just happen to be a Dilbert fan.
First Lee P. will advise mayor Nagin how to better exploit white guilt for the purpose of gaining more black power. Use that power to extort money and power from whittie (e.g. Jessie Jackson).
Lee P.: Mr. Nagin there is money to be made using the race card.
Nagin: I know that already. Tell me something I don’t know, Mr. Brown.
Lee P.: Mr. Nagin, I am here to maximize the use of your god given color, don’t you see? Maximize.
Nagin: “god givin’”, hehehe, I like that Mr. Brown!
Lee P.: Oh my! Mr. Nagin, I see a lot of work here. A lot! Now tell me again, who has all the money in New Orleans now? I mean the ‘non-color’ money, ifin’ you catch my drift.
#10 tedtam, Quick get the duck tape!
Lee (period) P (period) Brown…one mo’ reason to stop the funding of the restoration and ask for a refund… Thanks to the morons of N.O., they voted Nagin back into office…LPB will do to them what he did for Houston, Atlanta et al…
If leepee brown has his way he will set up “storefront” policing like he did in Houston. That’s right. Get most of the officers off the streets and put them in storefront locations. Then if there is a crime, the victims can just come to the storefronts to report them. Pathetic.
Personally I think Lee P. Brown did a bad job in Atlanta, Houston, New York, and as Drug Czar.
This is the reason he was hired to help in New Orleans, Because they wanted the appearance of doing something without actually having to accomplish anything.
trl3
#21
You are Spot On!
@21 & 22;
Give these two a Gold star.
If leepee is critized in public for being the incompentent fool that he is, anybody doing so would be attacked as being a rasist bigot.
I say let NO sink or swim on it’s own merits. It’s just too unfortunate that tax payers dollars will be lining leepee and chocolate nagins pockets
rj
with any luck, he will spare the City of Houston any more of his expertise.
NO is going to prolong its victim status as long as the federal dollars keep commin’ in. We need mo money will be the cry! I say: Pay them in acorns!
Funny thing, you don’t hear about Mississippi or Alabama near as much as NO. I was told that my observation of this fact was a racist comment. The race card is a very lucritave bidness indeed. And who knows how to use it better than leepee? NOBODY!
Nagin and Brown will never get past the racist agenda they have…blaming everyone but their own color of people for what is their own fault. They need to get off their duffs and do something instead of expecting everyone else to do it for them. No wonder most blacks are behind in everything they do, they believe they are ENTITLED to it, which is why they will never get ahead.