Out of the shadows

If you haven't been reading the new blog in town, Shadow's MCSD, very often, you might want to begin doing so. You can read it at http://shadowmcsd.blogspot.com/

Shadow definitely has the attention of Sheriff Keith Nygren and, therefore, of Nygren's attorney, Jim Sotos. I don't have any idea of his identity. Maybe our paths have crossed in the past. Maybe they will in the future. I hope so.

Shadow's help is much needed to inform the public what is really going on in the McHenry County Sheriff's Department.

I understand why deputies are reluctant to speak out about the problems there. They look around see what happens to whistleblowers. And not just to whistleblowers. They see what happens if a loyal employee, who doesn't like what he sees, tries to bring problems to the attention of a supervisor.

Would an internal affairs division (IAD) help? Only if it had a deputy of the highest integrity leading it. And if he had authority to go outside the department for help, if the Sheriff did not correct problems brought to his attention.

Would that break up the cliques and the in-crowd? It certainly would, if the leader of an IAD had complete independence.