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Madison hired a police monitor who is triggered by police

Police make him sick!

How much longer will progressive Madison gummint put up with its dysfunctional, deadweight Independent Police Monitor and its self-aggrandizing, virtue-signaling Police Civilian Oversight Board?

The horror!
The stuff of Robin Copley’s nightmares

Police Monitor Robin Copley is resigning after three years of … of what? … of drawing a taxpayer-paid salary because xxx/xxx/their post-traumatic stress disorder has returned. It was caused “by years of regular, indirect yet in-depth exposure to graphic and violent police incidents.”

Years of it! What graphic and violent police incidents? Not exposure to 5-year-old children cut down in gang cross-fire. Not the wailing of bereft mothers! Not the six Milwaukee police officers killed in the line of duty in the last nine years. Not the 197 homicides in 2021 when s/he was in Milwaukee — none of them at the hands of police. But exposure to police violence! Graphic but somehow not eye-witness — only Indirect (and undoubtedly double-secret) EXPOSURE! 

→ “Hello again, I’m Robin

A thousand paper cuts

Prior to coming to Madison, ace reporter Chris Rickert archly reports, “Copley had been the open-records legal adviser for the Milwaukee Police Department.” In other words, before coming to Madison three years ago as Robert Copley, Madison’s future police monitor was a paper pusher. He read reports! Verbose, impersonal, jargon-filled (and often misspelled) police reports.

Only in progressive Madison could someone who, s/he claims, is medically diagnosed to be traumatized by police be paid $138,381 to monitor the alleged (and highly unlikely) source triggering his/her trauma — the cops!

Josh Kaul would have been the immediate front-runner for governor on the Democratic ticket. Instead, he’s seeking re-election as attorney general because national party poobahs want attorneys general to bring suit against Trump directives. It’s why he’s prosecuting Jim Troupis. (Similar case overturned in Michigan.) On the other hand, Josh Kaul the candidate makes Jim Doyle look like “Party on, Wayne! Party on, Garth!”

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Robin Copley writes of an attempted suicide in the Spring of 2024. The Werkes wishes better mental health going forward.

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19 responses to “Madison hired a police monitor who is triggered by police”

  1. One Eye Avatar
    One Eye

    I read Copley’s resignation letter and thought finally something more embarrassing than the Chamberlin rock.

    1. Normwegian Avatar
      Normwegian

      where can we find the resignation letter?

    2. patrickmoloughlin Avatar
      patrickmoloughlin

      And she went to law school!

  2. Fred Avatar
    Fred

    Probably will apply for a disability pension ar a lump sum settlement due to the trauma of the job. And probably will get it. Why do Madison voters put up with the gross mismanagement of city government?

    1. madisonexpat Avatar
      madisonexpat

      Self hatred?

  3. Richard V Lesiak Avatar
    Richard V Lesiak

    Now Dementia Don said that federal workers may not get their back pay. just like when he was screwing contractors while building his crappy hotels. Talk like that will be sure to keep the planes grounded. What’s that new song by Zach Bryan again? Saw he is the opening act for BAD BUNNY at the S. B.

    1. Balboa Lives! Avatar
      Balboa Lives!

      Seek help soon.

    2. steve Avatar
      steve

      Dementia Don??? You progs are making fools of yourselves by trying to pin Biden’s infirmity on Trump. I am no Trump fan, but more than that, I am no BS fan and BS is what you are spreading….

    3. Normwegian Avatar
      Normwegian

      our resident troll is still alive…managing to proved his terminal TDS.

  4. madisonexpat Avatar
    madisonexpat

    Just when it seems impossible for the Dems to get dumber… The Guv of Illinois goes full Confederate and says no National Guard and Mayor Brandon says its a civil war.
    Question, Yer Onner… which side are the Democrats on and how did that work out the last time.

    1. Richard V Lesiak Avatar

      We are on the side of NOT snatching people off the street by masked men without warrants, badges, or due process.

      1. steve Avatar
        steve

        LOL….unless they are MAGA……..

      2. madisonexpat Avatar
        madisonexpat

        You are on the side that said there was no crisis at the border as 10,000,000 illegal aliens flooded in.
        You are on the side that blew up Chicago’s budget to the tune of $2,000,000,000, much of it on services to the illegals.
        You are on the side of having Kamala Harris as our border czar.
        Keep up the good work. Have a TACO.

  5. Kooter Avatar
    Kooter

    Keep up the good work indeed. Progressives/Democrats/Liesak: wrong on every issue. It’s truly an amazing record. Will they ever legitimately win another election? Doubtful.

  6. Bob Avatar
    Bob

    Has the Police Civilian Oversight Board investigated anything since it was created? I don’t remember hearing anything other than it took 3 years to come up with a complaint form and how long it took to hire a Monitor who now has resigned.

    1. David Blaska Avatar

      Zip. Nada. Nothing. Expecting an alder to move budget amendment to defund.

  7. Gary L. Kriewald Avatar
    Gary L. Kriewald

    As long as there are progressive stereotypes like Robin Copley being hired by cities like Madison to prevent cops from doing their jobs, MAGA world will continue to flourish. “Robin Copley writes of an attempted suicide in the spring of 2024.” Of course it does. How could its self-serving (and probably fictional)saga of trauma and victimhood be considered complete without one? I’m only surprised it limited itself to one.

  8. […] after three years of doing zero monitoring in an office budgeted at $509,000 a year. Robin Copley said he is triggered by … police violence. Those icky […]

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