Category: Madison city government
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How a former police officer sees the Corey Ruiz case
‘Could have told you one day he would be killed by police.’ An account from former Madison police officer and security expert Adrian Alan: “The [police] officer involved [in the Corey Ruiz case] is someone I field trained many years ago. … He was solid back then and he is today. By all accounts and…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…