Abuse survivors, senior government ministers, serving priests, canon lawyers, newspaper editorials, police officials, human rights groups and the head of the country's biggest children's charity were among those calling on the cardinal to step down Thursday over his failure 37 years ago to report damning evidence against the Rev. Brendan Smyth.
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Early in this sprawling, wry, opinionated, beautifully written memoir, Edward Conlon writes that he laughs a little whenever editorials denounce police power.
"Times" printed a critical editorial & then Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward called on the Mayor to make a public apology.
A May 1 editorial suggests that police officers in new democracies are often violent because there hasn't been time to train new officers in effective police methods.
The Telegraph, a Calcutta-based newspaper, concluded in a sardonic editorial that the police, rather than pursue robbers and murderers, had chosen to investigate a legally registered marriage.
"Wayward Police" (editorial, Feb. 5) addresses a disturbing number of cases in which officers have been accused of using their authority to commit sex crimes against women.
At the same time, the editorial in the Police Review complained that the show "went out of its way to paint a force virtually at war with society".
Re "Diversity and the Police" (editorial, April 5): The discussion of the need to diversify New York City's police force and its leadership is really about providing an affirmative opportunity for all.
The editorial added: "The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the Sun newspaper a whipping boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion, to hint at the wider causes of the incident".
