Apparently there are two sets of laws. One for us regular folk and one for the elite such as those on the police force. Not all police enjoy this 2 tier law system but ones who have relatives on the force do.
Take for example our Sherriff and his deputy son. Son was employed by MEG (Multi Enforcement Group) or a narc in common terms. Driving home or where ever off duty in a county owned unmarked car, crashes it into a ditch, admits to drinking but says he swerved to avoid a deer. No breath test, no nothing, gets a ride home, daddy suspends him 2 days and MEG says goodbye. Nothing out of the ordinary there right? Back on patrol writing you and me tickets, right?
Well my long time good friend just bought a brand new Chevrolet, one with On-Star in it. His first brand new car in years. He had a few drinks one night but far from drunk, drove home to his rural home and lost control almost hitting a deer. The car slid down an embankment and hit a guard rail. Flatten a tire. He wasn’t injured and got out. Being less than a half mile from his house, he decided to walk home, call a wrecker, and have the car towed.
Now remember the On-Star? Well, after he got out, the On-Star couldn’t reach him. He didn’t hear it. On-Star called the police unknown to him and of course they arrived as he was walking on the road home. He told them what happened, they asked if he had been drinking (Tom is a big guy) and Tom replied he had a couple of beers at the pizza place. They asked him to blow, he refused and was arrested on the spot.
They woke a judge, took a blood sample and Tom had to make bail, his car was impounded and he had to call his lawyer. You see, Tom owned 5 dump trucks and had a good business going. Loosing his license would mean he couldn’t drive (for the short term) and would have to hire a driver to cover him. Tom wasn’t offered a ride home, but a ride to jail. The blood test came back and Tom wasn’t even close to drunk. It was the principle of the whole issue to Tom. He felt he dodged a deer, had an accident, and wanted to cut his losses and call it a day but the police had a different idea.
Tom was a regular guy. No relatives in high office. He was preparing to sue for his arrest when he suddenly dropped dead from a heart attack in his business’ garage.
That was last April. I miss Tom. He was a nice guy but I’ll bet if his daddy was Sherriff, he wouldn’t have suffered the stress he did because of his arrest.
Now, can anyone tell me the difference between this story and Sherriff McCoy’s son’s story? I can. You can bet Sheriff McCoy’s son won’t face a DUI and court costs and even the risk of losing his job.
What is truly sad is….where is our great State’s Attorney or the Illinois State Police in this investigation? If it was truly an accident, then fine, but, police officers need to be held to a higher standard than us regular schmucks. You can bet you or I wouldn’t get cut an inch of slack if it was us this happened to, much like Tom.
This will quietly go away. Fade from memories until maybe one day, this gun ho prick who drinks while driving a police car, will maybe fuck up some innocent person with his actions. Time will tell.
I am sorry. Maybe the young Deputy is completely innocent but I still would like someone other than the head fox looking into this henhouse.
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No State's Atty. because no arrest and no police report was forwarded to the SA office for any review since in the Sheriff's Dept. view there was no offense, as I understand it.
Interestingly, I believe that where county employees are involved in accidents while driving a county vehicle a urine test is mandated by county employment policy, but apparently because the car was a MEG vehicle this rule may not have been viewed as applicable.
I'm not really sure how any citizen could think this was handled properly.
I feel kind of bad for the first officer on the scene. Who knows what he was told to do or not to do.
Any citizen wrecking their car and telling the responding officer that they had been drinking is going to be tested, bottom line, McCoy says otherwise but I don't believe him.
Mike McCoy is extremely well liked and highly respected by his peers and by the community. He has done more for St. Jude than just about anyone else in the area. I am saddened for him, his wife and family as well as the department. Yes, I believe it should have been handled differently, but I also believe that in any other business when the boss's son gets in trouble it is covered up more often than not. I'm not saying it's right, but we all know it happens.
If Mike's son has a problem, I pray they get help.
MAWB: Of course you are right. After posting this I thought about it for awhile and wondered how I would protect my son from harm. I have to say that none of us, me included, know the exact facts of this case and I did come down hard. In the past, we have had some cops who have flaunted their authority (Beachler's AMOCO comes to mind) and some cops who seem to break laws and keep their jobs despite the fact they are held to higher standards than you and I.
With that said, I too like Mike McCoy and he has always been a great guy to me and he has done a lot for St Jude and the community. I just wish this had been handled differently so we could clearly see what happened. Who knows. He may have just missed a deer and only had one beer all night?
I don't care what mccoy did for st.jude. he wasn't elected to st.jude. he was elected to uphold the law. did he or his office subvert justice? and we have to hear about all this from some smelly blogger? where is the attorney general or the journal star?
My guess is that it wasn't McCoy that made the decision, but it will be McCoy that takes the hit.
Smelly blogger? Gosh, Anon.... got any hostility?
Just watched the video at pjstar..... doesn't look good... : (
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