Nashville City Paper: Bredesen is too coy

Today's City Paper pressures the administration to quickly address the problems facing the THP. The paper editorializes:

If Bredesen has any known failing in this situation it is being a little too coy in explaining away the issue as a “nosy” officer. His original response in recent years during THP scandals of the past was the correct one — he did not make the mess at THP, but he will clean it up.

To that end, Walker and Mitchell were appointed to accomplish the task of changing the culture at the patrol. Clearly, they have some work to do given Shirley’s apparent transgressions, and should have taken more decisive action earlier concerning Shirley. Instead, they worried about how information was leaking to the press, and, in the process, let Bredesen down in the very task they were brought in to address.