NY Times Slams Schriro’s “Outrageous Behavior” as City Corrections Commissioner. Watch for Friday Night Dump.

The New York Times issues an editorial page indictment of state police head Dora Schriro over her record of concealing violence against juveniles held at Rikers Island prison when she served as New York’s city corrections commissioner. There’s nothing ambiguous in the editorial. Of Schriro’s role in scrubbing information about violence at the prison, the paper writes,

As The Times reported on Monday, all this was expunged at the order of the corrections commissioner at the time, Dora Schriro, who not only ordered the scrubbing of information damaging to the two officials but promoted Mr. Clemons to assistant chief of administration, despite an internal investigation raising questions about his conduct. This outrageous behavior lends credence to the charge that the department historically protected and empowered people who were comfortable with misconduct and a deep-seated culture of violence.

Schriro’s department failed to provide complete disclosure of information to the United States attorney’s office in New York in the course of its investigation of violence at Rikers. Schriro’s dusting of critical information came to light in a Times story this week. It is hard to see how Schriro will last the week as head of Connecticut’s chief law enforcement agency. Watch for the Malloy administration to do a classic Friday “take out the trash” maneuver by dumping the disgraced Schriro on an evening when the public is otherwise engaged.