Raymond Clark, arrested this morning, worked in the Amistad Street Building where Le was found. From a statement by Yale University President Richard Levin:
Mr. Clark has been a lab technician at Yale since December 2004. His supervisor reports that nothing in the history of his employment at the University gave an indication that his involvement in such a crime might be possible
It is frightening that a member of our own community might have committed this terrible crime. But we must not let this incident shatter our trust in one another.
As endless sociopolitical analyses emerge of violence in the workplace and psychological profiles of the individual, ignored will be the key issues of institutional and individual administrative accountability.
1. The first is the increasing empowerment by the government and institutions of animal facility employees due to extremist animal rights protectionist views and movements.
2. Second, the entire hiring process at every step should be analyzed and critiqued closely, individual by individual to determine whether a utilitarian abberration occurred that could have prevented the tragedy.
For example, was there an indirect nepotism involved based on who one knows rather than deliberate unbiased vetting? Was there an incompetent scientist administrator or veterinarian who made a utilitarian call who now has escaped responsibility and who should be brought on the carpet?
At very least there should be accountibility and this mistake if there was one added to the involved individual's track records.