Category: War on Police
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
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No complaint too trivial
for Madison’s police hall monitor! We have reviewed the first four complaints adjudicated by Madison’s Office of Independent Police Monitor. The Cliff’s Notes summary: Don’t play against OIPM in Trivial Pursuit. The cases included in its still-withdrawn annual report amount to deploying the SWAT team over an expired parking meter. First, a word about the…