Check out Cal Skinner's blog at www.mchenrycountyblog.com this morning for a story and a great night-shot of Zane Seipler's large commercial sign at Routes 31 and 176 in (near?) Crystal Lake.
Will ClearChannel file a vandalism complaint with the McHenry County Sheriff's Department? Pity the poor deputy who gets stuck with that call.
And who will investigate the vandalism? Will deputies investigate? Will sheriff deputy detectives investigate? Will the Undersheriff or Sheriff review the investigative work and decide what resources, if any and how much, get allocated to the immediate investigation?
With the political views of investigators be considered, before they are assigned?
"Oh, no," you say. "They will be impartial in their investigation."
Should an outside agency be asked to investigate?
I'm pretty sure that no one called up Keith and asked permission to vandalize Zane's sign. (There is no contact phone number on his campaign website.) And, if they did, Keith would tell them not to do so. And not to tell him, if they did. Wow! Otherwise, he have to arrest them; right?
Gee, why am I reminded now of the phone call from the Illinois State Police captain to Keith about a big drinking party of deputies of the McHenry County Police Benevolent & Protective Association, after I asked the State Police to set up a DUI checkpoint near the bar? Great way to catch drunk drivers, isn't it? You just call their boss, so he can tell them not to get too sauced up that night.
That's how the buddy system works in some police circles.
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3 months ago
4 comments:
I seriously doubt any State Police Captain WARNED Nygren. Here's the way I suspect it went but I doubt you will post this reply.
Keith; that nut case Philpot called and complained AGAIN. Yea Gus called for the tenth time this week. This time it's not some speeding cop car, it drunk cops.
Yea, now he wants us to stake out the PBPA meeting and arrest drunk deputies that are supposedly drunk.......YEA thats right, he thinks these guys are drinking themselves stupid and then driving....... What evidence? I don't know, probably a crank call from that Zane character trying to stir up crap.....Yea I know its bogus and the guys are not that stupid, but I figured I'd give you a heads up to let you know there was a complaint......
I can envision it now. Keith and his band of brothers out there with their socket set unbolting the sign. Probably drunk to bout. Laughing and sorting, having a regular party of it. They probably just left a PBPA meeting slobbering drunk. Someone has to get the hotdogs so they can have a big cook out when they burn all the stolen ZANE signs. YUP that the ticket....ooops poor choice of words, yup that right "Beam me up Scotty".
Notawannabee, somebody told me it's not polite to tell a person he's wrong. So I won't.
FACT: Capt. Hedrich told me he called Sheriff Nygren. He said it's better to prevent drunk driving and keep drunks off the road before an accident occurs.
No, I didn't call him ten times that week. (That was the week before. And it wasn't ten. It was 12. Sheesh!)
As for deputies who drink and drive. You must not know about PBPA monthly parties in Woodstock on the Square or at the Red Mill or about the deputies who drank on Randall Road the night before a deputy smashed his take-home squad
into a tree in Crystal Lake, AFTER he had been driven to his Huntley home from the bar.
Yep, just another crank call from Philpott. And a long time before Zane ever thought about running for Sheriff.
Remember that Keith Nygren fired that particular deputy and his supervisors are the ones that basically pushed Crystal Lake not to ignore the situation.The Sheriff's Department made sure that the deputy was charged. That tells me that Nygren and the Sheriff supervisors did the right thing.
You can't paint the entire department as being bad based upon the actions of one deputy.
My opinion is that Nygren weeds out BAD cops as soon as he can. Whoa, back up the truck. What happened to Zane? Seems he is gone too. Keith IS doing the RIGHT THING.
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