Tag: police monitor
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Madison’s police monitor can never be truly independent
Putting off a decision changes nothing! In Tuesday’s installment of the Independent Police Monitor soap opera, we learned that Greg Gelembiuk is undergoing — “after prayer and meditation” — a Gandhi-based fast. Since “late afternoon” Monday 04-20-26 the police monitor’s data analyst said he has consumed nothing but water. Done so “as to prick the…
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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 —…
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Southwest side neighborhood pleads for more police
‘City leaders are not hearing our voices’ Calls Satya’s rapid bus transit a ‘want’ not a need “Our neighbors’ priorities run strikingly counter to those embodied in the 2020 city budget you are currently working on.” — Orchard Ridge neighborhood association One neighborhood association is speaking out forcefully against Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s police-bashing budget. “The vast…