See the post by Mr. Angus from yesterday. He has posted this on a couple of other blogs as well where people were asking about it. Are we done with it yet?

"Once again, it was not a murder on Palm Street. It was a death in a private home. No crime was involved. The Gazette does not report on deaths in private homes unless crimes or public figures are involved."

Scott W. Angus
Editor

Irishlady4ev: That sounds like a good mystery. Don't take my answer as anything but a guess here, OK? In other words, don't get angry with me because I am only guessing and not accusing anyone of anything. How about drug overdose where the person your son's roommate was using with left him passed out, locked the door and stole all of the belongings. Am I close? This has occurred with several overdoses in Rockford, IL.

Sarah knows all so it must be suicide. How would she know the public hasn't even had a story on it so In my opinion it must not have really happened. (being sarcastic here) I found a 25 year old dead (my sons roommate and the way I found him left me to believe it was other then what was listed as the cause YET nothing was ever in the paper and the belongings of my son and his roommate were gone including big screen TV PC all their clothes and the door to the basement where I found him was locked from the outside off the door to the dining room and there was no outside entrance now you all explain that one

soside-4life, easy to find out how many officers are out on patrol each night. Just call the non-emergency # and ask each night for a period of time. Then you will get a good average. I doubt it will ever be over 5-6 on a good night. Not on nights of emergency like heavy snow etc, when they may have allot of overtime held over or called in. There is no less than 9-10 managment cars (some are nice new four wheel drive SUV's)being driven home and at will. None of this is a "secret" it's all open record information available to all. Taxpayers should pay more attention to open records info to check on all government agencies to keep informed for better voting decisions.

Thanks for the info on Feb 22, 2009 at 1:35 p.m. tallman :) If you could please provide me w/ the the following...Just HOW MANY officers are provided to the public @ night? I'm seriously curious, because I can bet where most are & it's not right.... :(

Heh...Anyone remember when our Rock County Sheriff's Dept. put in a request/or in the BUDGET for 'leather' coats..? LMAO!! ;)

A murder or suicide on S. Palm...??! Hmmmmm....Now that's INTERESTING. Good luck w/ the Dept. w/ THAT! :(

Soon only government jobs will be the best paid and benefited. They take care of themselves first we all know that. The American people need to realize that once in office they have the POWER. Our state government is the largest employer and they are facing no cuts. The Governor's speech was all political garble. He takes care of the government workers first as they are the largest voters!!! Why do you all think the AIG INSURANCE got the first BILLIONS in bailout money?? They hold and invest the federal employees and legislators retirement money. How about our state legislators first order of business this year. They took a 5.3% pay raise while thousands are loosing there's. I hope all Wisconsin voters remember that in two years. We are only one of nine states that have a full time state legislature for working 140 days a year. We are so high taxed and fee driven with more to come per the Goernor's speech. We are so taken for granted it's disgusting. Being retired and no children in school, for the first time I am seriously considering moving to a cheaper state due to the financial rape we are going through because of uncontrolable legislative spending. They just aren't getting it!! Even though I grew up here and care a great deal about Wisconsin

Law enforcement was already given plenty of stimulus money in the last eight years. Remember homeland security to protect us from terrorists? What do they do now? Track thc drug deals coming from Mexico. Like we don't already have the FBI and AFT for that very purpose. Plus the new stimulus bill is giving homeland security a new 400 million dollar building with 100 million dollars of furnishings.

sarahb, if it was suicide, then why is it that the police taped off the property and the coroner's van was there?? the house is less than a block away from where my grandmother lives and 2 houses away from where a friend of ours lives... there's been at least one squad car parked, unattended, in front of the house for the last 2 days now...

they charge for everything already, are disrespectful of people and don't do much anyway, they seem to forget they work for we the people, how often do u see 2 squad cars side by side, engines idling, talking I guess, maybe should be on the road huh..

Most blogger's have it right. Grabbing more government money simply put places money in the hands of already highly paid and benefit flushed government workers. Worse yet that money WILL end and then the poor taxpayers end up paying the tab forever just like with the COPS program under Clinton!! The Sheriff promoted and increased pay on a hand full of people to create a bigger form of management to cushion him from decisions and injury. Worse yet he re-induced the privilege of all those management individuals that work day shift and no weekends to have personal squads to drive to and from work and all over while at home. That benefit alone is worth multi-thousands of taxpayer dollars. When Sheriff Runaas took over he ended that huge financial benefit to management that they had under Erickson. Commanders were taking those cars on vacations and you name it, fuel included plus, remember Rock County Taxpayers we are self insured so anything that happens we are on the string for in damages!! It's insane and irresponsible. None of those that take those cars home do emergency response at all. Money wasted and then wonder why we don't have enough patrol cars out to cover the entire county. There are more cars going home than on the road at any one time. Think about it at election time.

The sheriff's department just promoted a bunch of officers and gave them big raises while claiming to be saving the taxpayers money.

It looks to me like it's just pork fat added to the bill that won't really help our economy.... But will help raise our national debt!!

Does anyone know if the sheriffs dept instituted a wage and hiring freeze yet? Like almost everyone else?

All of these programs may very well have some merit as do other programs like Biggirl mentioned, but they are not economic stimulus.

Oh no, crime rate MIGHT go up! We have to do something now. Of course, none of this mentions the fact that the crime rate is actually down. I'd prefer to put this money in things like public transportation, which would, in fact, make this area a better place and more attractive to businesses.

I thought this very newspaper ran an article about how they were surprised that crime has not gone up?

The people on here that are happy about this will be the first to complain in two years when things are better that we are OVERSPENDING on police.

Finally, our tax money is going to something we need.

wisgirl...Have you heard the expression its better to shut up and look ignorant than to speak and remove all doubt. ?????

There is hope for Darien, after all.

Just another "feel good" program that is a waste of taxpayer money.

Remember all the "homeland security" money that was tossed out like candy in a parade after 9-11?

Has anybody taken a look at what that was used for and how cost effective it was? What a joke.

Wisgirl: It was not a murder. It was a suicide.

Does this mean the police would actually solve crimes. How about the murder on S Palm that they are trying to hide from the public.