Category: War on Police
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Questions for a police defunder
What we would ask Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Keith Ellison is the attorney general of Minnesota. He is one of the star presenters for The Capital Times’ Idea Fest Wednesday 09-20-23 on the University of Wisconsin campus here in Madison. The Minnesota AG made a national name prosecuting the Minneapolis police officers who caused the…
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Might one more cop car have saved that girl?
Madison is using a tragedy to signal its Woke bonafides Announcing the arrest of a suspect for the brutalization of a University of Wisconsin student in downtown Madison, Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway put in a plug for her mental health intervention team, created two years ago. You’re supposed to call the Community Alternative Response…
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So much for ‘over policing’
How many more black peoplemust die under ‘police reform’? What’s this? We want police to prevent crime? After a decade of demanding police to (in the words of Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway) stand down (and not stand by)? The Associated Press writes: A new report examining Baltimore’s response to a mass shooting at a…
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Progressives and police
just don’t mix! We call it “the Emerald City.” Some call it “Madistan;” more call it the “People’s Republic of Madison.” We march to a different drummer — sideways. But wouldn’t you think that a city as “progressive” as Madison, where Defund the Police is still a vote getter, would want to burden every police…
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Anarchists strike back!
They’re trying to organize our UW-Madison grad students! Remember how revolutionaries took over capitol hill in Seattle during the George Floyd/Jacob Blake hot summer of 2020? Declared a police-free zone of six blocks? Demanded that the police budget be cut in half? Actually set the police precinct station on fire and drove the cops out?…
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Would this cop be criminally charged
If this weren’t Madison WI? Contrary to Nancy Pelosi’s dictum that criminal defendants must prove their innocence, our legal system requires the state to prove guilt. But the might of the state is arrayed against defendants who either pay for their own defense or trust their fate to a court-appointed attorney. As a practical matter, there…