Tag: Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission
So Who Is The Milwaukee Chief Of Police?
From Daniel Bice’s year end winners and losers article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: And does anybody know who the police chief is right now? Certainly not the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, which we can all agree doesn’t have a clue. Too bad there’s not an experienced hand at City…
Milwaukee Needs To Address Issues With Fire and Police Commission Before Madison Helps Out And Another Update.
A few days ago, I finally put down my thoughts about redoing Milwaukee’s very badly broken Fire and Police Commission. But the mayor and the common council really shouldn’t wait too long because it looks like the GOP in Madison have the FPC in their sights. And the last thing…
It’s Time For Milwaukee To Re-imagine Their Fire and Police Commission
This was one of the posts that I meant to finish in that catch up Friday some weeks ago. But I never got to it, partly because I kinda burned out that day and partly because it seems impossible to completely get my head around. I started working on this…
Cops Can’t Do Their Job Without Chemical Weapons?
In anticipation of a traditional Democratic National Convention…and an expected 50,000 attendees…politicians, delegates, vendors, and media types…the Milwaukee Police Department was going to be relying on reinforcements from other police departments from around the state and neighboring states. But as the DNC shrank to a virtual telethon instead of a…
MKE Police Chief Demoted By The Fire And Police Commission.
I am going to have to write the rest of my story…but I don’t have the energy tonight. But to put this in the contemporary vernacular…the FPC is a dumpster fire. Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales is demoted to captain by the Fire and Police Commission Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso…
MKE Common Council On New Executive Director for the Fire and Police Commission
I have been working on an article about the hot mess that is the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission for two months now but every time I get into it some new shit happens. Tonight there will be a showdown around the police chief…but in the meantime the Common Council…
It Really Is Only About the Police Chief
Earlier this week the Milwaukee Common Council passed a measure by a vote of 8 to 6 that would permit the city lobbyist to pressure the Wisconsin legislature to change the law to permit the Common Council to remove a Milwaukee fire chief or police chief. Currently state law gives…
Side Note on Police High Speed Pursuit.
Now I don’t know what is the better police pursuit policy…only chasing violent criminals and suspected felons…or pursuing every suspect that police come in contact with…that is what the current discussion with the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission and Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn will hopefully determine. But while researching…
MKE Common Council Joint Statement On Chief Flynn and Fire and Police Commission
Yesterday, in Milwaukee Common Council Needs to Make Up Its Mind, I promised to reprint their joint letter on the tempest in a tea cup around Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn and the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission…plus the mayor and city attorney. Well here it is with my comments…
Milwaukee Common Council Needs to Make Up Its Mind
Over the past two weeks the Milwaukee Common Council has take two different positions in relation to the civilian Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission…the body that hires the Police and Fire Chiefs. First they wanted to usurp the commisision’s control over the police chief my requesting the state to change…
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