How to Screw a Good Thing Up
As much as I hate to say anything nice about Mikey, it is true that he has handled the death of Alberta Spruill very well. Unlike his predecessor, he accepted responsibility for her death to her family. But he put a kink in that when, not content to sit back and let others praise him for his handling of the case (like former Mayor Ed Koch), he had to come out and gracelessly state that he did a better job than any of his predecessors could have done. While that may be true, and Koch said as much, sometimes it's better to be gracious and not appear arrogant. Most of what he said would have been fine.
"The most important thing is to tell the public what happened, which isn't always done in government," Bloomberg said of the probe. "There's a natural inclination to hide the facts because somebody may have made a mistake ... If you make a mistake, stand up and say 'We made a mistake.'"
I completely agree with him on that. He is 100% right. The government should be more forthcoming when it screws up, rather than trying to deny it ever does so. If only he had left his remarks at that.