Tag: Chief Mike Koval
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Chief Koval: No cops in Madison schools under those terms!
Police Chief Mike Koval today says there is NO WAY he will agree to contract with the Madison school district after the school board tossed in yet another poison pill Monday night (12-17-18). Board of Education member T.J. Mertz added an amendment — agreed to by the other five voting members — that the school…
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Why won’t you prosecute the mob? Part #1
An Open letter to Ismael Ozanne, Dane County District Attorney: Thank you for meeting with me, unscheduled, Monday morning (12-03-18) in your office. That was most gracious. As we discussed, my purpose was to determine the status of a criminal complaint lodged by myself and three other witnesses against the ringleader of the mob action…
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Madison police, scapegoated for society’s ills, demoralized and quitting the force
The Policy Werkes yields its allotted time to Madison Police Chief Mike Koval from his always must-read blog: by Mike Koval, chief of police It’s been happening all too frequently. One of my officers makes an appointment with my administrative assistant. I get to the meeting and the officer sitting across from me looks decidedly…
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‘Living on borrowed time’ before someone killed by teenage burglaries, car thefts
Restorative justice not reaching hardcore grip of 32 juvenile delinquents Dane County may have to build a long-term juvenile lock-up ‘Liberal Madison is racist’ Congrats to Ald. Paul Skidmore for hosting Monday night’s public safety meeting at Blackhawk Church off Mineral Point Road. Guessing a very engaged crowd of 400 to 500, with a significant representation…
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Teen crime? Quick, more ‘services’!
Blaska will talk smack with Our Ms. Vicky McKenna on these issues 5 to 6 p.m. today (Thursday 10-18-18) at 1310 on your AM dial. THIS JUST IN: After police chase into rural Dane County, 6 juveniles arrested this morning in two vehicles stolen in Madison. UPDATE: There is evidence the teens burglarized at least one…
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Police Chief Koval: ‘the juvenile justice system is failing’
“What about accountability?” Police Chief Mike Koval asks This blog continues to hear rumblings that much of the juvenile crime wave in Dane County can be laid at the lenient feet of Juvenile Court Judge Everett Mitchell. Mitchell is on record that car theft should be left up to insurance companies to deal with, not the courts, and…