Category: War on Police
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Don’t know much about (police) history
Their minds are closed; don’t confuse them with facts The Madison Common Council did something good Tuesday 05-15-18 and they will get some credit for it: they expressed their appreciation for police during National Police Week. Unanimously. (Their resolution.) Mayor Paul Soglin recalled how Madison’s finest turned back an outbreak of homicides. Ald. Skidmore handed…
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Madison pols demand more data from police but not from jail diversion programs
Who wants to know? Not the Dane County Board Chris Rickert has committed some real journalism. Demanding answers to tough questions. The tough question: All those jail diversion programs, are they actually, you know, working? The answer: Who (the hell) knows? But, by golly, diversion sure feels good, keepin’ folks out of jail. That’s the…
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Protect Madison students, vote Reyes
The doomsday clock at the Stately Manor is counting down the hours until 7 a.m. Tuesday, April 3, a date that will live … in INFAMY! Excuse us, we got carried away. That is the Spring, non-partisan (yeah, right!) Election Day. One week from today’s posting. We’ve got some pretty consequential elections. Top of the…
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Has the race card been revoked in Madison schools?
Madison schools boss admits race-based discipline isn’t working Young people from Madison are marching on Janesville to the home of Speaker Paul Ryan to protest school shooting deaths. It’s not quite marching on Selma, Alabama, for Civil Rights. Or the Mobe March on Washington 1971 during the Vietnam War protests but, as Marlon Brando said in…
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Isthmus defends its Heimsness cop story
We’re getting deep into the weeds here, folks We report, you decide. An Isthmus article written by Dylan Brogan alleged former Madison police officer Stephen Heimsness was the ringleader in harassing fellow police officer Sarah Anderson, forcing her to quit the force. That article, to this reader and others, implied that had Heimsness been disciplined immediately,…
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Isthmus let its anti-cop bias get in the way of a good story
Bad old boy cops not so bad, old, or male Kudos to Dylan Brogan of Madison’s Isthmus for persevering for an entire year before getting information out of the Madison Police about an incident involving officer Stephen Heimsness and a female police officer that occurred before his fatal encounter with the unfortunate and dangerously intoxicated…