Open Letter to Sheriff Nygren & U/Sheriff Zinke

Gus Philpott
The Woodstock Advocate
July 12, 2010

Dear Sheriff Nygren and Undersheriff Zinke,

One of your off-duty patrol supervisors had a serious motorcycle accident on June 25 in McHenry County. It was a single-vehicle accident that wrecked a motorcycle and injured the deputy. Surely, you know about this already.

Would you care to explain why no tickets have been issued and whether a press release was issued to the media?

You wouldn't have a double standard there by any chance, would you? You know, one where a civilian who wrecks a motorcycle gets a ticket, but a deputy doesn't?

Was the Illinois State Police called to investigate the crash? Did a superior officer handle the investigation? Or did a subordinate of the patrol supervisor handle the investigation? That could put him in a really bad place, if he had to ticket his boss!