“the rate of crime is lower now in Woodstock than it was in 1985″

I was disappointed by last Friday’s Woodstock Villager article about getting a resident trooper. A perfect opportunity to present the readers with information and facts was, once again, missed by our weekly ‘newspaper’.

Where was the analysis of cost and expected functions of such a resident trooper? Mitchell Eaffy deftly took advantage of the opening the Villager gave him to continue pushing his resident trooper pet project by suggesting a straw poll be taken.

I was disgusted by the implication that, if Woodstock had a resident trooper, somehow Judy Nilan’s horrible murder would not have occurred. Let’s keep in mind that the last person to have seen Judy alive WAS a state trooper. Read the rest of this entry »