Help Naperville Police catch graffiti vandal -- have lunch, too
If you visit our downtown area during the evening hours, you may have seen or even met officer David Pastrick. Dave is an 11-year veteran of the Naperville Police Department and has been assigned to work as a downtown beat officer since Jan. 11. Like many other Naperville police officers, Dave takes a lot of pride in his work and ownership of the problems he encounters in his assigned area. An example of that can be seen in the following e-mail that he sent to all members of the Police Department last week:

Even older murderers should stay in prison
A little more than a year ago, I wrote a column about a murderer named Silas Fletcher and discussed his ongoing attempt to get paroled from prison because he is old.