Hurricane LeeP hits New Orleans
A week ago, KHOU-11 reported that Lee Brown had been hired to help New Orleans with its crime problem (really!).
Today, the Chronicle's Kristen Mack devoted over half of her weekly column (really!) to this bit of news. Here's an excerpt:
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.
Hmm, many Houstonians understand the "specialties" of Brown Group International somewhat differently from Mack's glossy version!
After his disastrous run as Houston mayor, Brown spent a year as "scholar in residence" (using that term lightly) at Rice University, allegedly to complete a textbook on neighborhood policing. His hagiographer at the Chronicle is forced to concede it still has not been completed:
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.
Ha ha ha, what a jokester that Mack is.
Or, of course, the people of New Orleans may figure out that the bumbling Brown's inattention to detail and deadlines related to the overdue book is just a manifestation of his general incompetence.
BLOGVERSATION: Lone Star Times I, Lone Star Times II.
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Mayor Pothole's Archives (TBIFOC).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/19/07 09:39 PM | Print |
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