Another Whack at NIU Pres' and Police Chief's Friday Statements
Saturday I repeated a bit of what NIU's president and police chief said at their morning after the massacre press conference:
The president of Northern Illinois University is “pleased at the professionalism of the response.”I caught some heat for my criticism of these NIU officials praising themselves for succeeding in process (notifying students quickly, getting to the murder room quickly), while ignoring that they failed in their goal to prevent their students from being killed by a satanically tattooed former student, off his Prozac, it turns out.
“We did everything we could.”
The campus police chief said, “...was not anything we could have done differently...”
Finally reading Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times Monday, I see columnist Neil Steinberg and I are in agreement...at least on the “crowing about how competent they are.””...watching a parade of officials over and over praise their own response, emphasizing how extremely proud they are of themselves and their organizations, cite what a good job everybody did—there's something unseemly about it.The Steinberg column may be enlarged by clicking on it.
“With six dead students and more gravely injured, perhaps they should save the infomercial for another day....”
Posted first at McHenry County Blog, where you know what my answer would be.
2 comments:
Have to disagree. Yes, they could have laid off a little bit on the self-congratulations. The overall response though was very good and deserves praise.
It's completely unfair to take potshots at them from not identifying a potential threat who is not even on their campus. And when he was on their campus, he was pretty much an ideal student.
And starting your article with "Opening Shot" is the utmost of class, isn't it Mr. Steinberg?
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