He sought and received the resignations of the secretary of juvenile justice, the department's assistant secretary and the superintendent and assistant superintendent of the facilities. When the deputy secretary refused to go, Glendening fired him. Keep that in mind as you observe the District's investigation into city-funded group homes for the mentally retarded following The Post's Dec. 5 story on neglect and deaths of group home residents since 1993. A shocked and indignant Mayor Anthony Williams promised a full investigation and a major personnel shakeup. That was nearly two weeks ago.
District leaders can fulminate up a storm about injustices induced or tolerated by city workers.
Let's go back to Aug. 12, 1997. Curry, now serving 10 to 30 years in jail, should not have been behind the wheel that day. It turned out he had compiled a record of at least 32 traffic violations from four states in the nine years preceding the August crash. His D.C. license should have been yanked long ago. Curry was driving in violation of the terms of a restricted license the city had issued him when he crashed into Cooper's car.