New Orleans rats letting the good time roll
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When it comes to risk management, perhaps no one at the New Orleans Police Department headquarters could have sniffed out this scenario.
Rats are breaking into the evidence room and “eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Anne Kirkpatrick, superintendent of the city’s police department, told a city council committee at a meeting on Monday regarding the paltry conditions at her office, as reported on Nola.com.
The rat problem, she said, could possibly lead to botched investigations, according to the news outlet.
Along with the rats, which she said leave feces all over desks, there is an infestation of cockroaches, as well as countless maintenance issues, including broken elevators, non-functioning plumbing, and an air-conditioning system that collapsed last summer, and has a repair bill in excess of $6 million.
“It is not just at police headquarters. It is all the districts. The uncleanliness is off the charts,” Ms. Kirkpatrick told city officials. “The janitorial cleaning [team] deserves an award, trying to clean what is uncleanable.”
