Tag: Police
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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…
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Quit blaming police for crime!
Hello? Anybody home? The essential Heather Mac Donald in the Wall Street Journal: Police officers aren’t making minority neighborhoods unsafe; criminals are. The four victims of fatal police shootings in Chicago in 2021 were all armed. [They comprise] 0.7% of the 538 homicide victims year to date. Blacks make up 83% of all homicide offenders…
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Portland OR police: Take this job and …
Couldn’t happen to a nicer city Adapted from the Wall Street Journal: Although 14 openings have been posted since May, only four candidates have applied to work with the new version of Portland Oregon’s gun violence reduction team. It was shut down last year amid long-running protests seeking racial justice and an overhaul of police…
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Has the BLM fever broke?
11-year-old girl fights for life due to black on black violence. UPDATE: Little girl to be taken off life support. Has ‘Black Lives Matter’ been exposed for the fraud that it is? As a hoax on the order of “Hands Up Don’t Shoot,” Juicy Smo-lee-yay, and Madison’s own lighter-fluid gal, Althea Bernstein? (“Classic Wisconsin frat…
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Progressive alder’s family is burglarized by repeat offender; she proposes still more restorative justice
Ald. Rebecca Kemble: Maybe things will get better now that Chief Koval is gone Wants ‘community-based solutions’ The secretive shareholders of Blaska Policy Werkes thank Madame Brenda Konkel for her faithful, gavel-to-gavel transcription of the Madison Common Council’s budget deliberations Tuesday (11-12-18). We excerpt from that transcript this soliloquy delivered late in the evening by one…
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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…