Tag: Greg Gelembiuk
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Speak out against Madison’s police monitor
because its apologists will resist even minor reforms! Among the costs levied by the dysfunctional independent police monitor is the reputational harm it causes the City of Madison. The City may run its buses on time, rake autumn leaves from neighborhood curbs, delight Saturday mornings with art fairs and farmers markets. All overshadowed by the…
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Madison’s bad idea factory
Police monitor hard at work undermining public safety! The Judge Hannah Dugan school of law enforcement is waging redistributive justice here in progressive Madison WI. The Office of Independent Police Monitor, budgeted at $400,000 a year, will ferret out racist policing no matter how many shoot-em-ups plague our neighborhoods. (May 26. May 25. May 21.…
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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 alders to consider police cameras Tuesday
See how YOU like it! If Madison progressives can play the race card, so can the Werkes. Who supports police body cameras? Alds. Sheri Carter, Charles Myadze, Barbara Harrington-McKinney, and Syed Abbas — all people of color. Who opposes, Greg Gelembiuk, Brenda Konkel, Public Safety Review Committee member (and UW student body president) Andrew Mitnick…
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Brenda Konkel is a slap in the face
It goes beyond disrespect. It is more than an insult to police officers. The new mayor’s appointment of Brenda Konkel to the Public Safety Review Committee is an outright assault on public safety. This blog broke that story yesterday morning (07-15-19). New mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway could not signal her hostility toward law enforcement any more…
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Madison seeks felons, squatters, illegal aliens, and addicts to judge the police
Just jonesing to recommend Chief Koval’s dismissal The War on Cops continues apace in the Emerald City, Madison WI. Two developments: First, two excellent sources tell us that Brenda Konkel is about to be named to the nine-member Public Safety Committee. Madame Konkel co-chairs Progressive Dane, which is in league with Freedom Inc. and the…