Tag: police monitor
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Madison progressive alder calls police monitor behavior ‘outrageous’
Alder agrees: ‘Burn this F-ing City down’ is “outrageous.” Tag Evers is no Republican. By profession he is a concert promoter. Currently in his fourth term as a City of Madison alder. Represents the affluent and very progressive Monroe/Dudgeon/Nakoma/Vilas/Regent neighborhoods on Madison’s near West side. Nice guy. Once asked me to sit down for coffee with…
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‘Things are about to get bad’
‘Burn this city down!’ — Madison’s Independent Police Monitor Great thing about electronic message boards: they can be rewritten with a few keystrokes. Driving in at 8 this morning, CSN&Y’s “Woodstock” on the tunes, two electronic signs proclaimed that Madison’s Willy Street was open for bidness. When it’s not closed. The mob had shut it…
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Madison’s police monitor can never be truly independent
Putting off a decision changes nothing! In Tuesday’s installment of the Independent Police Monitor soap opera, we learned that Greg Gelembiuk is undergoing — “after prayer and meditation” — a Gandhi-based fast. Since “late afternoon” Monday 04-20-26 the police monitor’s data analyst said he has consumed nothing but water. Done so “as to prick the…
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Madison was better off when the police monitor did nothing
before its long-gestating complaint form could harass police! What have we always said about budget crises? (Short-term memory loss. Wait, now we’ve got it!) A good, stiff budget deficit forces good government. Hard decisions. Priorities. Clean out the attic, dust behind the dresser cabinet, clear the vegetable drawer of those moldy cukes. So now —…
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Southwest side neighborhood pleads for more police
‘City leaders are not hearing our voices’ Calls Satya’s rapid bus transit a ‘want’ not a need “Our neighbors’ priorities run strikingly counter to those embodied in the 2020 city budget you are currently working on.” — Orchard Ridge neighborhood association One neighborhood association is speaking out forcefully against Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s police-bashing budget. “The vast…