Tag: police civilian oversight board
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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 alders try to rein in police monitor
Just want Office to obey the law! Madison alders only want the Independent Police Monitor to play by the same rules as other city agencies. Because: • Independent Police Monitor data analyst Greg Gelembiuk was crunching sensitive crime victim information on his personal computer while working from home until Police Chief John Patterson put a stop…
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Madison school board veep & Brandi Grayson arrested
The two apparently made quite the ruckus! Not-so-Independent Monitor to ‘take appropriate action’ Two DEI police critics were arrested on multiple charges in downtown Madison Friday night 12-19-25. One of them is Maia Pearson, vice president of the Madison Metropolitan Board of Education and president of the City of Madison Police Civilian Review Board. She…
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Please, no more ‘reforms’
What would ‘justice for Tony Robinson Jr.’ look like? We forced ourselves to read the Page One story in Thursday’s cyber-hacked Wisconsin State Journal. The headline: “It’s been 10 years since a police officer killed Tony Robinson” Where DOES the time go! The subliminal headline, as any Madison WI progressive knows, is “White cop kills…
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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 mayor wants to gut Police Monitor/Oversight Board
Is this the Rapture? Even atheists get religion in a foxhole. The corollary is that nothing induces good government like an empty cash register. Her backside pressed up against the fiscal wall, Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway proposes to eliminate the Police Monitor/Civilian Oversight Board if her $22 million spending referendum crashes and burns. The…