the great R. Crumb

Category: War on Police

  • Send in the police!

    Expel the clowns! God Bless and hold in his heart police chief Shon Barnes! Madison’s public schools should, indeed, reinstate school resource police officers in its four troubled high schools! We’ve argued they should go a step further and assign SROs to the middle schools, at least part-time.  Chief Barnes sounded the alarm after officers…

  • If you’re going to Chicago

    Be sure to wear a flower helmet over your hair! Let’s get it out into the open: Republicans are hoping Chicago next week August 19-22 resembles war-torn Bakhmut. So, we suspect, do the news media despite their romance with Kamala/Walz. Ratings — not love — conquers all! It does appear that the Democrat(ic) national convention…

  • Madison’s mayor is not serious

    about balancing the budget Madison’s mayor is listing proposed cuts if the anticipated referendum to increase spending limits in perpetuity by $22 million is defeated on November 5. UPDATED: Except for a $23,000 nick, those cuts do NOT include the $509,420 million taxpayers spend on the lIndependent Monitor/Police Civilian Oversight Board, a do-nothing agency created…

  • Obsessed with ‘Equity’ but not voters

    Under furious pursuit, Democrats on the wagon train are throwing dead weight over the side! There comes a time, as life’s movie reel spools to its end, when one exclaims, in the shock of sudden awareness, “My God! What Have I Done?!” as did the colonel played by Alec Guinness in Bridge On the River…

  • Fathers! Inspect your kids’ back packs!

    and demand La Follette high school ‘security staff’ be terminated! Your correspondent was carrying a little baby we named Max out of what was then Elmbrook Hospital in Brookfield WI many calendars ago. The newly minted father — only a decade or so removed from childhood himself — half expected a tap on the shoulder.…

  • ‘We’re supposed to protect kids here’ …

    … but from the police? The best news reporter in town is up with a story today that ought to get heads rolling in our public school district — but probably won’t because — Forget it, Jake, it’s Madison WI! School employees harassed police as they arrested an 18-year-old student criminal for carrying a loaded…