Category: Madison city government

  • An apology, Senator!

    Shouldn’t everyone get one? Nino Amato wants an apology. So do Betty Mitchell Banks, a children’s TV producer; Richard Harris, author of Growing up Black in S. Madison; and M. Kinney James, Madison’s first black woman police officer. The last three want mea culpas, on behalf of black people uprooted from Madison’s old Greenbush neighborhood.…

  • Let’s do a little profiling, shall we!

    Youth profiling, that is! Bring back the curfew! Kids, children, teens — anyone under the age of 18 — have no rights that adults are bound to respect.   Gawd help us if police were allowed to round up unsupervised teenagers loitering on State Street at 1 in the morning of an August weekend before…

  • Madison police monitor comes out firing

    Hints at legal action. Madison’s independent public monitor is firing back against critics who want her office to comply with city government I.T., procurement, personnel, and open records regulations. “I will not be silenced. The PCOB will not be dismantled. And this office will not be policed,” Aeiramique Glass declared hours before alders are scheduled…

  • Speak out against Madison’s police monitor

    because its apologists will resist even minor reforms! Among the costs levied by the dysfunctional independent police monitor is the reputational harm it causes the City of Madison. The City may run its buses on time, rake autumn leaves from neighborhood curbs, delight Saturday mornings with art fairs and farmers markets. All overshadowed by the…

  • Madison alders try to rein in police monitor

    Just want Office to obey the law! Madison alders only want the Independent Police Monitor to play by the same rules as other city agencies. Because:  • Independent Police Monitor data analyst Greg Gelembiuk was crunching sensitive crime victim information on his personal computer while working from home until Police Chief John Patterson put a stop…

  • Keep issuing disorderly conduct citations, Madison police!

    Get ’em young before they graduate to maximum security! Madison’s Office of Independent Police Monitor is hot and bothered that its nemesis, the Madison police department, charges disorderly conduct 50 times more often (it claims) than cops in Milwaukee. To which Blaska Policy Werkes says: GOOD! Well done! Keep it up! In its still shrouded…