Category: War on Police

  • 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…

  • 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 The cases included in its still-withdrawn annual report amount to deploying the SWAT team over an expired parking meter.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…

  • Madison police monitor is reviewing her boss’s arrest

    The absurdity of the damn thing won’t stop.  Madison’s Independent Police Monitor may actually — five years after its misbegotten creation, after false starts, gender transitions, and preferred pronouns — report its first investigation into the often alleged racism of the Madison Police Department. It’s official. Newly hired Police Monitor Aeiramique Glass Blake, contemporaneously suing…

  • Madison school board veep & Brandi Grayson arrested

    The two apparently made quite the ruckus! Not-so-Independent Monitor to ‘take appropriate action’ Two DEI police critics were arrested on multiple charges in downtown Madison Friday night 12-19-25.  One of them is Maia Pearson, vice president of the Madison Metropolitan Board of Education and president of the City of Madison Police Civilian Review Board. She…