Posted on Monday, 13th July 2009 by Glenn D. Frankovis

Three very obvious homicides and this is the headline?

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22 Responses to “Have you ever seen this before?”



  1. A Nonymouse Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am

    If I close my eyes you can’t see me…



  2. Steve O Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Well, they technically are deaths. It’s just more palatable this way.



  3. Roland_Melnick Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    Yes…I’ve seen that before a few times from our esteemed but shrinking paper…seems to be softening the reality that there are people killing other people in our community.

    It will be interesting to see if more detail on the man who was “severely beaten to death” will be released. I was told over the weekend the victim was white and was beaten to death in the street by a group of black males. The only other details I heard on this case were that the victim, who was a member or captain of that neighborhood’s block watch, was leaving a tavern when the beating occurred. Didn’t hear what motive the suspects had or what led up to the incident.

    The paper doesn’t seem too interested in digging for detail any more. A couple individuals within the JS organization do, but the majority of their “journalists” seem to do nothing but regurgitate press releases. Just like with Obama, the majority of the media seems content to fall asleep at the switch with Barrett and Flynn at the helm.



  4. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Roland, I find your last sentence very interesting as it is consistent with what I was thinking when I read the article this morning. The softer headline is inconsistent with most of the recent shooting/homicide headlines I have archived since Memorial Day and most of the headlines before then which have been used in news reports of shootings and homicides. I have a theory as to why this might be taking place and will expound on that if these “soft” headlines continue. I’m sure we won’t have to wait long for the next shooting/homicide, so we’ll see.

    As for the revelation on the race of the beating suspect, it will be interesting to see if that is reported. You know well that if the victim had been a black man beaten at the hands of a group of white suspects it would have been written quite differently with a much more descriptive, and probably suggestive, headline.

    These young police beat reporters call around to the Police Districts and Detective Bureau to get information for their stories and then report it within the P.C. guidelines they or the Journal have set. Many of these police beat reporters that I met during my years on the Police Department are young, inexperienced and idealistic. They want to impress their editors and sometimes embellish a story to gain favor or notoriety just as many of the actors on local news do when they go out to get their “scoops”. They have tremendous power to influence people with what they write and how they write their stories. It’s amazing to me that such an important responsibility is placed in the hands of such young and inexperienced people.



  5. John Smith Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    JS’s deal is to show that the guns or white people are the problem, unless the group of people was white or used guns to beat the guy to death, it is not worth reporting in order to push their agenda forward.

    It’s not safe in Milwaukee, guns and white are not the problem, black people are not the problem, it is the large communities of uncaring people. The people that vote to take the profits, the people that vote to get free stuff, the people that are in denial, the people that pretend and proclaim good communities when they really aren’t, the people that vote to tax their neighbors, the people that won’t paint their houses, won’t pick up their garbage, the people that spend their money - then want you to pay for their healtcare,…

    good people = good community = raising good people = raising good communities, not taxes, not overwhelming police power, not Doyle, not choo-choo, not Barrett, not government stimulus package, …

    Responsible people = good communities = independent productive free citizens



  6. Roland_Melnick Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    At this time, Glenn, I don’t know if it’s a case of the MPD holding back details or the JS withholding details in their reporting; though, neither option is a good one.



  7. Ron Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Don’t ask, don’t tell policy is in effect.
    Last thing we need in this city are riots on the fashionable East Side and Bayview. Those Prius’s probably need the Haz-Mat crew when they burn.



  8. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 14th, 2009 at 7:39 am

    The article says Milwaukee Police are searching for known suspects but there is no description provided by the writers of this article: http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/50687257.html

    Whatever happened to investigative reporting? (Rhetorical question, I know. Just take a look at who contributed to this story at the bottom of the article.) One of the writers interviewed the victims involved, so even if the MPD isn’t providing suspect descriptions, there’s no excuse for the writers not asking others for a description and providing the description in their article to alert the public.



  9. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 14th, 2009 at 7:53 am

    We’ll soon have the information that CANNOT be reported, at least by some reporters, before someone is in custody: http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/50718177.html



  10. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 14th, 2009 at 8:45 am

    A reader sent this to me. It’s a television reporter interviewing one of the victims of this beating homicide: http://www.cbs58.com/index.php?aid=8349



  11. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 14th, 2009 at 11:10 am

    As I think more and more about this beating homicide at 64th and Main, I have to wonder what the District #3 Captain’s response was to the calls from these Block Watch people he must have received informing him of this problem. Same with Alderman Mike Murphy who, when I was the Captain at District #3, always made it a point to call me whenever his constituents had police related concerns. (I might add that the aldermen in Police District #3 will tell you that they got real time or next day responses to whatever problems they brought to my attention as I had a “strike force” consisting of 16 Police Officers and a Sergeant who were flexible enough to address any problem in the District in a very short period of time.) So I’m wondering what strategy the District #3 Captain has at his disposal now and what his strategy is/was to deal with this problem.

    Another thing to be considered here is that 64th and Main isn’t exactly in a high crime target area which is to be saturated under Chief Flynn’s new District boundary configuration. So maybe he, or somebody in authority, should read concerns registered in this link to a previous post I wrote: http://badgerblogger.com/?p=12483

    The whole idea is to prevent crime, not react to it. A policing strategy that emphasizes preemptive policing and attention to small problems can reduce the kinds of offenses that we have read about here. And people in every neighborhood need to hear from their District Captain what I always told them: “If it’s significant to you, then it’s significant to me.”



  12. gus Says:
    July 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Glenn, my partners daughter lives on 64th near the murder scene. Last year she told me her next door duplex was a drug house. The other family in the duples was an elderly couple who spoke little English. I know the couple and their daughter. They were scared, so I called Fighting Bob and Mike Murphy. They had the district Captain on the phone with me in minutes. Needless to say the drug house is gone, but my point is this kind of crime is not limited to our 2 “hoods” in Milwaukee.



  13. John Smith Says:
    July 14th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Statistically speaking it would not be a good idea to approach a group of uncaring people already motivated to harm others(throwing rocks). If you look into the statistics, what occurred, is what all would have expected, independent of the neighborhood, across several counties.

    Would have been a better idea to not be influenced by what the media tells you and take a look for yourself.

    Go back into the bar and call the cops after a group of particular people throw rocks at you. If you approach a group of people where 1 in 3 or 4 are statistically going to get a felony by the age of 18, then run man, don’t risk your life to celebrate the diversity that is going to harm you and your family. Statistically its just a matter of time.

    http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/RACIAL/RacialDisparities.htm



  14. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 19th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    Charges filed in the beating homicide of the 40 year old father of five. http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/51144647.html



  15. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 19th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Daniel R. Curry (age 22): Run your own ccap Wisconsin on this guy. (The one I linked expired.) His conviction record is quite revealing.



  16. MvnOn Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    The other guy, Paul J. Kaiser, was also on probation. Our system really works well heh folks? Take away the probation option for repeat offenders and you might see your crime rate drop. I mean drop, not drop due to number fudging.



  17. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 21st, 2009 at 9:39 pm

    More on this beating homicide at 64th and Main: http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/51356572.html



  18. Ron Says:
    July 21st, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    Who would ever miss these piles of sh*t?



  19. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 8:54 am

    They definitely fall into the category of: “Got one coming”.



  20. Anon Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 9:07 am

    Looks like at least two of three are prior felons.

    One was ordered to go to “Cognitive/Criminal Thinking Class” as a condition of his probation. What a joke.



  21. John Smith Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 9:15 am

    Right on the button MvnOn!

    Quit tip-toeing around the problem because Doyle and Barret want to thug huge. If you spend the money to fight crime, then you have to spend the money to keep the criminals locked up. Don’t pretend to re-educate, when you haven’t, they didn’t and still don’t care. Quit punishing the rest of use, twisting our arms with these guys, or don’t spend any money to catch them in the first place, arm the citizens then?



  22. MvnOn Says:
    July 25th, 2009 at 7:29 am

    Looks like the third guy charged was either just finishing up or just got off probation. Boy, they did a nice job of REHABILITATION on him, eh?? What do smart people do with turds? Why, they flush them of course!! Not the lefties, they skim them and spread them around to infect other clean areas. Unbelievable.

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