Shit My Jackie Says

Councilwoman and New Orleans's undisputed Queen of Quotable for 2011 Jackie Clarkson questioning Police Chief Ronal Serpas during this week's budget hearings:

Clarkson suggested that Serpas lead a team of four or five officers to clean up drug crime, taking on the role of Sean Connery’s character in the 1987 Brian De Palma movie “The Untouchables,” even though Kevin Costner played the leader of that group, Federal Agent Eliot Ness.

Clarkson said Connery is better looking than Costner, which is why she allotted Serpas for that role instead of Costner’s. But her rhetoric also showed scant regard for the constitutional rights of the city’s accused criminals, just like Connery’s character in the movie.

“Take no prisoners,” Clarkson said.

Just to reiterate. Jackie Clarkson wants the New Orleans Police Department to abstain from taking prisoners. I wonder if Sheriff Gusman knows about this since it could negatively affect his per diem.

Previously on Shit My Jackie Says:

• During a zoning hearing on 1031 Canal Street, Jackie claims to have written the city's master plan.



• During a series of community budget meetings, Jackie reminisces about the glory of NORD during the 1940s. Audience members point out that NORD facilities back then were segregated. Jackie spends the rest of the week refusing to acknowledge there was anything wrong with that.



• Goaded into action by something former Mayor Ray Nagin said on Twitter, Jackie jostles to the front of the pack of pols ordering helicopter attacks on a marsh fire.



• Jackie goes all captain hook on threatens to sink any barges in the Mississippi River which might threaten levees during this year's record spring flooding.