as a portland native, i do not approve of dredging up awful memories.

Their decisions simply reflect societal expectations in such cases. The same view was held by Liberal Attorney-General Christian Porter, demonstrating that cases like this transcend political party leanings. When former Labor Attorney-General Jim McGinty rejected Birnie's parole bid last decade, he said she should never be freed from jail. Even to mention it in jest would be considered an insult. I don't know many other West Australians in their early 60s who would consider themselves as being senile or even remotely being near that stage. Percy then eloquently states that Birnie must be approaching that stage now.īut Birnie is not senile and she is not in her dotage – she is still only 64 years old. Mr Percy has referred to a statement made by the sentencing judge along the lines of hoping she is not released until senility overcomes her. And I probably will never have an answer to what went wrong.He has also expressed a strong objection to Western Australia's Attorney General having the power of veto over any decision made by the Prisoners Review Board in the case of Catherine Birnie “The old tactics didn’t work,” said Mink, noting that now, “the first responding officers that get to the scene of an active shooter engage that shooter as soon as possible to neutralize that threat.”Īs the finger-pointing continues five years later, Patti Nielson said she has finally realized she can’t alter what happened that day, adding, “I can’t change whatever went wrong with those boys. Ted Mink, the new Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado, said that Columbine has indeed caused police all over the country to revise their tactics. Other investigations have concluded that on the day of the Columbine massacre, police should have acted more rapidly. “I’m not ready to reach a conclusion today that there was a cover-up,” Salazar said. Questions linger: why didn’t police follow up on the Browns’ complaints? Also, why are some of the written records of the prior warnings now missing? Colorado Attorney-General Ken Salazar said, “I don’t think that anything that law enforcement did was negligent,” but added that he’s still investigating whether the police tried to hide some of their mistakes.

As a portland native, i do not approve of dredging up awful memories.