Tag: Police
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Madison alders feather their own nest but allow police to twist slowly …
The Squire can countenance the name-calling that comes with being a Reagan-Tommy Thompson-Act 10-supporting conservative in The Emerald City. He will suffer the credulous whose answer to every ill is blame white privilege, take away the guns, and demand More Free Stuff. They are easily countered. But insults to his intelligence curdles his cream. So…
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Shots fired; a report from the front lines of street crime and Madison politics
Wednesday, September 6. Your Humble Squire came, he listened, he spoke, he went home and deadbolt-locked the doors. It was the first of two budget listening sessions scheduled by Madison alders Matt Phair and Mo Cheeks, who operate as a duo. Kind of like Paul and Paula. The second budget session is scheduled from 10…
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Build a big and beautiful jail, Dane County!
As The Donald might say The Squire lends the keys to the Stately Manor to my friend and former colleague, County Board Supervisor Mike Willett of Verona. Your Humble Bloggeur’s last great cause on the county board — back in 2004-6, was to enlarge the county jail. Dane County, the fastest growing county in the…
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Madison will fight crime as if it were the clap … somehow
“Where do we get the vaccine?” — Vicki McKenna Well, lookie here. Look, look, look who is getting tuff on crime. It’s the Dick and Jane of the Madison Common Council attempting to play Batman and Robin. Alders Matt Phair and Mo Cheeks, posing for holy pictures. Another press conference, another spray-the-wall with proposals and…
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Alder Rummel is ‘thinking deeply’ about gun violence
Did we say the worm has turned? (Oh yes we did!) Madison alders and their enablers are turning away from harassing Police Chief Mike Koval, suspending the micro-managing and second-guessing of his sworn police officers, and toning down accusations of endemic police racism. Glory be to God, the Madison Common Council has begun thinking about…
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From Ferguson to Madison: safe streets are a casualty of the War on Cops
The War on Cops is real. The victims of this war are more black men slaughtered on the mean streets of America as police pull back, hunker down, drive on by. It’s called the Ferguson Effect and it is being felt today in Madison, Wisconsin, where bullets are flying and bodies falling at record pace.…