Tag: police civilian oversight board
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Do you know who she is?
Shady uses ‘social justice’ for racist ends! That Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores holds a governmental position of authority over Madison police is reason enough to vote NO on the city’s appeal for $22 million in additional spending on November 5. Good for the police union for filing an ethics complaint against the chairman of the redundant, profligate,…
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Only 2 Madison alders had the courage to vote NO
against the $22 million City spending referendum! We don’t play identity politics here at the Werkes, although we suspect that the Lovely Lisa may be of Polish extraction. Her last name has the letter Z in it, among a claymation army of consonants. Pronounced properly, as a Warsaw telephone operator once corrected us, her name…
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Asking for a friend
Anyone predict burning tires in our future? Eric Hovde promises to donate his salary if elected Senator. Why advertise that you are Daddy Warbucks? Chuck Schumer is telling Israelis to change leaders? How would Democrats like it if Bibi Netanyahu told American Jews to vote Trump? (Bonus question: How about we protect our own goddamn…
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Zero out the Police Civilian Oversight Board
It would be duplicative if it wasn’t so dysfunctional! And paranoid! The great thing about a bowl of corn flakes in the morning is they’re hard to screw up. You got to be trying. We say that about Madison WI with its lakes, natural beauty, university, and state government — not that the progressives who…
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Madison is not Memphis
But we have a police monitor anyway! Memphis TN, we have a problem. The police killing of Tyre Nichols looks to be even more egregious than the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. But Memphis is more confounding, given that the five accused police officers are black, as was their victim. As is…
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Would cop oversight monitor have any business?
Did a crossing guard yell at your kid? Blaska Policy Werkes monitored Thursday’s meeting of the Police Civilian Oversight Board. It was painful. The City of Madison created this 11-member paean to Wokeness to pillory the racist slave catchers when they needlessly target people of color, as progressives believe occurs as a matter of course. (The…