Posted on Wednesday, 20th October 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
Because of the failure of Tom Barrett to see that the $18+ million OpenSky radio system is functioning properly, the police officers and fire fighters that are forced into using a radio system that does not function properly, have lost confidence in Tom Barrett, and they support Scott Walker for Governor. Tom Barrett has had [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 7th October 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
The $20 million radio system that the Barrett administration has forced into service in the Milwaukee police Department and now the Milwaukee Fire Department, even though it is still full of problems, crashed today. This system crash left out police and fire fighters without communications for a half hour this morning, and it was more [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 29th September 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
Tom Barrett is forcing this fiasco OpenSky on the Milwaukee Fire Department, and already, just days after the OpenSky consoles the fire department dispatchers can not hear their fire fighters on the ground. This is dangerous and unacceptable! We have police officers being guinea pigs for this failed radio system, now they are being foisted [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 28th September 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
I’m a few days behind on this (and most things) but our resident radio geek @MKEScan let us know that the Milwaukee Fire Department had their OpenSky consoles installed a few days ago. John opines that “[T]here won’t be any patches until after election. Or any testing.” I agree, Tom Barrett can’t afford to remind [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 1st September 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
This afternoon John (@mkescan) reported that a Milwaukee Police Department motorcycle officer was injured in a crash in the area of 43rd & Lincoln. West Milwaukee police had no idea why MPD squads were racing through their community, thanks to the asinine OpenSky radio system. John suspects, and knowing the area as well as I [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 12th August 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
Citizens for Responsible Government is still digging into the OpenSky radio issue, and have uncovered some interesting documents… The MFD is moving ahead with this failed radio system, even though they themselves conclude that the radios and batteries are, “not intrinsically safe and posed a safety hazard to the Milwaukee Fire Department and the citizens [...]
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Posted on Friday, 2nd July 2010 by Roland_Melnick
Reality is that the city was locked into this radio system before Ed Flynn was a twinkle in Tom Barrett’s eye. Granted, Flynn has done nothing to make this situation better except lobby for a band-aid that hasn’t worked. The real blame here lies with Mayor Tom Barrett who has been in charge during this [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 30th June 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
Tomorrow morning there will be a press conference regarding the Open Sky radio system that was pressed into use by the Milwaukee Police Department. Even though it is millions of dollars over budget, it still doesn’t work properly. We at BadgerBlogger have been collecting and sharing with you, information from police officers for months, such [...]
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Posted on Friday, 14th May 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
The taxpayers of Milwaukee are hammered over and over, we are losing jobs left & right, but there is always another plan to spend our tax dollars. During recessionary times, we citizens have to cut back, but they don’t have that problem in government. The latest, the police department wants to update their administration building. [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 12th May 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
This week is National Police Week, and the Republican Party of Wisconsin is calling out Mayor Tom Barrett after he addressed the Wisconsin Professional Police Association. Barrett failed to address OpenSky and the WisGOP is calling him out for his lack of leadership in the failed radio system that is endangering our officers, and soon [...]
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