The Big Sleazy

A former New Orleans police officer who resigned from the force after being accused of abandoning his post during the Hurricane Katrina crisis was arrested while driving a stolen truck, authorities said...Bickham, who has family in Houston, could also face weapons charges: He had a pistol issued by the New Orleans department, McDuell said.

So the NOPD was out stealing guns from citizens and they can't account for guns stolen from their department? How many NOPD guns are still out there in the hands of AWOL thugs? What effort is being made to account for and retrieve them? And why are these questions being asked on a lowly blog instead of by the official government-recognized watchdog press?

I love it--New Orleans was at the forefront of suing gun manufacturers--and here they can't control distribution of firearms entrusted to their own police department. These corrupt Third World goons would be laughable in their incompetence if they didn't have the power to destroy lives.