Madison was better off when the police monitor did nothing

before its long-gestating complaint form
could harass police!

What have we always said about budget crises? (Short-term memory loss. Wait, now we’ve got it!) A good, stiff budget deficit forces good government. Hard decisions. Priorities. Clean out the attic, dust behind the dresser cabinet, clear the vegetable drawer of those moldy cukes.

So now — four years after its creation — two years after the Independent Police Monitor was hired (as Robert Copley, when his pronouns were “he/him”), the police monitor (now Robin Copley) has come up with a complaint form. We think it not coincidental s/he did so just as Madison’s mayor threatens to gut its budget by $195,000 even if the mayor’s referendum — to hike taxes by $22 million — passes next week. (If it fails, the entire Monitor/Review Board’s $509,000 budget gets erased.)

Two years in the writing! This ain’t the seven volumes of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu, for Crissakes!  Access the complaint form here — then ask yourself what took so long? We wrote the damn thing over a year ago:

•  What’s your name?
•  What happened to you?
•  Who did it?
•  When and where?
•  How can we get ahold of you? 

 You want irony?

Blaska’s Policy Werkes serves it hot and spicy! The long-feared completion of the almighty complaint form is just one more reason to vote NO on November 5 (or before). A No Vote kills this non-essential, duplicative agency. Cop haters like Shadayra Kilfoy Flores will submit reams of complaints alleging every micro-aggression known to the Grievance Studies faculty at our Woke universities. When Madison police tried to police her daughter, Ms. Kiljoy Flores threw rank, according to a police union complaint filed with the city ethics board: 

“I’m the chair of Madison’s Police Civilian Oversight Board. You will be thoroughly investigated to make sure any of your arrests involving young black women will be thoroughly investigated. … Your discrimination tonight is obvious.”

So you see who sits in judgment of the Police Monitor complaints. A kangaroo court.

Blaska’s Bottom Line: As another public service, The Werkes offers this corrective: Submit a form yourself! Send it to oim@cityofmadison.com. But instead of bitching about police, use it to praise the police officer of your choice or the force in general for his/her/their professionalism, courtesy, bravery, selflessness, endurance, friendliness, clean uniform, bitchin’ service weapon, and gnarly squad car. Thank them for their patience with the cop bashers who continue to threaten public safety in Madison WI.

And vote NO on the spending referendum!