Sunday, November 28, 2010
James V. DiPaola, RIP
His suicide death is sad and shocking. No matter what he did and no matter what criticisms were aimed at him, it was never worth his or anyone else's life. ... I liked two observations this morning: Dan Kennedy’s and Howie Carr’s. First, Dan:
His suicide death is sad and shocking. No matter what he did and no matter what criticisms were aimed at him, it was never worth his or anyone else's life. ... I liked two observations this morning: Dan Kennedy’s and Howie Carr’s. First, Dan:
There is a possibility that much worse was about to come out, and he couldn’t bear the thought of disgrace and prison. But it could well be that depression was responsible both for his misdeeds and for his suicide. Killing himself was such an extreme reaction that it doesn’t seem likely the thought had never occurred to him before last week.Now, Howie:
The thing is, pols don’t kill themselves, not around here anyway. Look at DiPaola’s predecessor as Malden Rep. — John “McFeel” McNeil — 450 pounds, convicted and jailed on kiddie porn charges. McFeel kill himself? Are you kidding?
Pols don’t kill themselves, but sometimes cops do and in the end, whatever he did in those final years, for better or for worse, DiPaola was a cop.
