Officer Sachs responds

I appreciate the author's comments and support of our City Council and Police Department. I, however feel compelled to comment myself to the readers and the comments by annonymous. Operating a motor vehicle while impaired is a serious, serioius problem across this great country of ours. The cost of lost property, personal injury and life is immeasurable. I wish I could forget how much of it I have seen. Try and imagine the pain in a parents eyes when you have to wake them in the middle of the night and tell them that they're son or daughter has been killed in a motor vehicle accident. I don't have to imagine this. Unfortunately I have had to make this notification too many times. I have never seen such pain. Fortunately by these laws being strictly and fairly enforced these incidents have decreased across the country. As a husband and father I hope and pray that this trend continues.

Scott Sachs,
police officer since 1990, Pelican Rapids Police Officer since 1997