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As a handful of pumps toiled to drain the water out of a sprawling city today, the New Orleans police said they would force the 10,000 or so residents left in the city to leave and Louisiana officials warned of long-term damage to the area's environment.
The police superintendent, P. Edwin Compass III, said police officers and other rescue workers going door to door would do all they could to remove every resident still in the city of nearly half a million, to protect them from lawlessness, get them to shelters and make sure children are fed.
"If that's necessary, we have the manpower to do it," Mr. Compass told CNN this afternoon about reports that they would force out people who insisted on staying in their water-logged neighborhoods. "We'll do everything we can to keep this city safe. These people don't understand they're putting themselves in harm's way.
"We're trying to save them from themselves," he said. "We're going to get the residents evacuated and then we're going to get all the criminals out of New Orleans. "
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The police superintendent, P. Edwin Compass III, said police officers and other rescue workers going door to door would do all they could to remove every resident still in the city of nearly half a million, to protect them from lawlessness, get them to shelters and make sure children are fed.
"If that's necessary, we have the manpower to do it," Mr. Compass told CNN this afternoon about reports that they would force out people who insisted on staying in their water-logged neighborhoods. "We'll do everything we can to keep this city safe. These people don't understand they're putting themselves in harm's way.
"We're trying to save them from themselves," he said. "We're going to get the residents evacuated and then we're going to get all the criminals out of New Orleans. "
Police Vow to Get Remaining Residents Out of New Orleans (Published 2005)
As a handful of pumps toiled to drain the water out of New Orleans, the police said they would force the 10,000 or so residents left in the city to leave.
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