HE'S OUTTA THERE

NO PD Superintendent Eddie Compass has resigned. It's the first thing he has done right since Katrina.

Neither Compass nor Mayor Ray Nagin would say whether Compass was pressured to resign.

"It's a sad day in the city of New Orleans when a hero makes a decision like this," Nagin said. "He leaves the apartment in pretty good shape and with a significant amount of leadership."

Pretty good shape? Fifteen percent of its officers deserted in the middle of a crisis. Others looted during the crisis. Compass himself just circulated rumors and made stuff up about the chaos in flooded New Orleans. What does it take for Nagin to recognize that the NO PD was literally "no PD" when it was needed most? Sheesh.

Mayor Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco should follow Compass' example. But both should fire their emergency management staff before they quit.

UPDATE: Ghost cops? Invented to obtain federal funding? Say it ain't so.