Category: War on Police
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Madison alders take a pass
on supporting police and ethics! Shamefully, the Madison Common Council failed to uphold the Ethics Commission’s verdict of undue influence on the part of inveterate police critic Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores Tuesday 01-14-25. The City Ethics Commission had unanimously upheld an ethics complaint filed by a Madison police officer that Ms. Kilfoy-Flores attempted to use her position…
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Beware the anti-police candidates!
Another damn election to worry about! The new year has started with most unwelcome bangs — terrorist attacks in New Orlean’s crowded French Quarter and the exploding truck outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. This follows the assassination of that insurance exec on the streets of New York 12-04-24 and more locally, the tragic…
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Some compassion is in order today
If the answers were easy,we’d have figured it out by now! Tragedy, eventually, comes to where you live. It never knocks first. In Madison WI this week before Christmas, this tragic history is still playing out. Three are dead — a teacher and two students, including the shooter by her own hand. Six more children…
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Qwitcherbitchen
Sorry to ruin your Christmas but … “Kamala Cat Lady” yard signs are still stuck in the permafrost of Madison WI this cold winter’s day (in a deep and dark December). So why is Blaska nattering about candidates, campaigns, and elections?! Kick the habit! But an election looms on April 1 that will determine whether…
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Madison’s police monitor/civilian review board is pretty scary, boys and girls
Voting NO on the city referendum kills the monster! We say it again: if Madison’s so-called Independent Police Monitor were just a ghost — as it has been in the two years since the shape-shifting Robert (now Robin) Copley filled the position — it would merit a call to Egon Spengler and Dr. Peter Venkman. But…
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Madison was better off when the police monitor did nothing
before its long-gestating complaint form could harass police! What have we always said about budget crises? (Short-term memory loss. Wait, now we’ve got it!) A good, stiff budget deficit forces good government. Hard decisions. Priorities. Clean out the attic, dust behind the dresser cabinet, clear the vegetable drawer of those moldy cukes. So now —…