Tag Archives: Police

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Under ‘Race’ let’s mark ‘None’

… of yer damned bidness! Let’s end America’s toxic preoccupation with racial taxonomy The late, great John Patrick Hunter was a liberal journalist for The Capital Times. He won national fame for an Independence Day stunt in 1951 when he asked … Continue reading

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