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Our View: Time for NIU PD to move on

At last, Northern Illinois University’s police force can move on.

The decision this week by Bill Nicklas, acting director of public safety at NIU, to remove Donald Grady as police chief has been a long time coming.

More than three years ago – while Grady was on administrative leave after an incident with a student journalist – we said in this space that we had lost confidence in Grady’s ability to do his job to the standards the university and public deserve.

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