Police monitor hard at work undermining public safety!
The Judge Hannah Dugan school of law enforcement is waging redistributive justice here in progressive Madison WI. The Office of Independent Police Monitor, budgeted at $400,000 a year, will ferret out racist policing no matter how many shoot-em-ups plague our neighborhoods. (May 26. May 25. May 21. May 21. May 20.)
In the last thrilling episode, we detailed how the monitor admonished the local gendarmerie to avoid arresting anyone who might be an illegal immigrant “at all costs.” But the monitor doesn’t stop there. A suspected perp makes a run for it. Cop catches the mope — or does he? Independent police monitor recommends:
The first officer to reach the suspect following a foot pursuit should not go “hands on” with them. Instead, the officer should wait for backup to take that role.
Wait right there
Huh? While the first officer is waiting for backup to go “hands on” what do you think the suspect is doing? He’s hopping over your back yard fence. Or the fugitive is going hands on with the police officer, shouting “I can’t breathe” for the smart phone lookie-loos.
But wait, there’s still more crazy! The Werkes has gone airborne over many a speed bump. But they’re not equitable, according to the independent police monitor. No, Madison should install something called “dynamic speed bumps.” Robin Copley unearths more identity-based disproportionality:
Traffic citations have a drastically more extreme impact on the poorest community members. These devices dynamically respond to an approaching vehicle’s speed, rising when a speeder is detected. Only vehicles traveling above the speed limit would experience a bump.
(We detect the dead hand of “Doctor” Gregory Gelembiuk in all of this.)
But would these dynamic speed bumps detect race, national origin, immigrant status, gender, and poverty?
Who was that masked … ?
Who needs “more protections”? If you guessed honest, hard-working taxpayers, you won’t be appointed to Copley’s Police Civilian Oversight Board, once chaired by Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores, enemy of white supremacists everywhere. No, “people wearing masks in public” need more protections.
In the wake of several student protests in 2024 of Israel’s bombings of Gaza, a push for the enforcement of “mask bans” gained political traction.”
Copley the monitor calls for more (you guessed it) diversity in the police force “with incentives for hiring black and women officers.” How many more times must such identity-based set-asides be ruled unconstitutional?
We’ll accept the monitor’s contention that a black person is eight times more likely to be arrested than a white in Madison. The monitor’s office is investigating “to what extent these disparities are a consequence of discriminatory policing.” It’s analyzing police GPS smartphone pings out of predominately minority neighborhoods and traffic stops. Race bias has got to be there somewhere!
Finally, the monitor wants still more restorative justice diversion programs. Copley cites San Francisco as a model. Seriously.
→ Former Police Chief Barnes warned Madison against the police monitor.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: We liked the police monitor better when the office (no pronouns shall we use) wasn’t doing anything.
4 responses to “Madison’s bad idea factory”
When you have no assets, what do you have to lose? I’d just “Smile and wave” as Milwaukee has done with 85% less public contacts. You’re on your own citizens. Any fantasies about being protected are just that. Equity means what’s yours is theirs.
Madison should have “Black Court” for all black on black crime. Jurists will not be asked to determine if a crime occurred but rather did the “victim” need killing, stabbing, a big can of whoop ass upside their head, etc. All streamed on Paramount!
Call it Judge Latisha?
9 WEAPON VIOLATIONS IN 13 DAYS AND NOT A PEEP FROM OUR FINE MEDIA OUTLETS. KEEP HIDING THOSE STATS, WILL BE GREAT FOR A CERTAIN POLITICAL PARTY IN 2026 AND BEYOND. GOOD JOB TO A CERTAIN CITY RULER WITH HER HEAD IN HER BLANK.