Posted on Friday, 17th September 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
Sorry about the late start, I have been fighting off a bug and have been asleep for more than 14 of the last 18 hours, but here you go, your Weekend Open Line.
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September 17th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
The Southern Poverty Law Center says that MPS suspensions are disproportionate, implying that MPS is racist in its suspension policy: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/103172354.html
Check out the comments section to this article. Not everyone seems to agree with the SPLC.
September 17th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Seems like the Journal Sentinel doesn’t care about reporting Crime & Fire news anymore. NewsWatch is pretty much useless lately. Also what happened to Ryan Haggerty,they take him off cops?
September 17th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Tosa PD wanted to set up perimeter on 58th & North to look for 3 suspects. They called MPD for help and were told there were no squads available. Sounds like suspects may of been wanted for breaking in cars. Tosa had a foot pursuit about a hour earlier on North, not sure if it’s related.
September 18th, 2010 at 12:07 am
no squads available, everyone at a P1 fight in the street that is 20 minutes old
September 18th, 2010 at 12:11 am
A girl stopped by my house last week. She was wearing a Russ Feingold sticker.
She told me she was a volunteer for Russ Feingold, and he wanted to know the concerns of voters.
I told her.
She looked like a five year old girl who was just told where babies came from and that Santa Clause was fake.
She didn’t write anything down on her little clip board. I asked her why, and she claimed she had a code which is like shorthand.
I guess Russ really doesn’t care about what voters think if they don’t think like him.
September 18th, 2010 at 12:39 am
Before the Tosa thing, MFD Med unit wanted a police supervisor because they have been waiting 18 minutes and no squad. I think they were staged.
I thought crime & calls were down? Should be a lot of squads just sitting around waiting for a call.
Seen a lot of Unable to Locate Complainant tonight on MPD website, one was for providing security for MFD http://itmdapps.ci.mil.wi.us/MPDCallData/currentCADCalls/callsService.faces
September 18th, 2010 at 8:09 am
MFD now asks for a police supervisor if they wait too long.
MPD’s policy is to send supervisors to those assignments, as well as other “expired” assignments.
MPD uses its supervisors as extra cops.
Supervisors are therefore unable to supervise.
We all know what that can lead to.
September 18th, 2010 at 8:28 am
@mkescan: Ryan Haggerty presented the wrong questions to some of the really wrong people, which produced some conclusions that the men behind the curtain really didn’t much care for. (Especially in an election year)
Then, they let him publish a 22 paragraph story, only to come out the VERY NEXT DAY to declare, “Oh, geez, we sent you the wrong data. Our bad.”
Ryan Haggerty has subsequently been reassigned to the Bisphenol A Rapid Response Team. If you fear that your water bottle may be slowly killing you, contact him immediately: [email protected]
Crime is down!
September 18th, 2010 at 8:35 am
I’m waiting for the Barrett campaign to begin touting how crime is down; Calls for service are down; and Milwaukee is once again safe. I wonder how that political ad would measure on the Journal’s FactCheck scale and if/when the Journal does an in depth investigation into these claims coming out of the Ivory Tower. Actually, this is a topic that Scott Walker should hammer on over the next several weeks. Remind the voters of Wisconsin about just how responsive the Barrett administration is to people, especially certain businessmen, who call MPD asking for help. Or maybe remind the voters of just how responsive the Barrett administration is to the concerns of MPD’s Officers when they report problems with their Police radioes.
September 18th, 2010 at 9:37 am
All should go read Pat Buchanan’s Human Events article: “Rockefeller Republicans.” You’ll have to go a long ways around to find a better explanation of why the Republican establishment has gone stupid over the O’Donnell primary victory in Delaware.
What the Tea Party has done has ended the validity of the allegation that there’s no difference between the two parties; the Tea Party candidates would not have voted for the BHO stimulus or either of the SCT nominees, or NAFTA and GATT which shipped millions of jobs overseas and put us in thrall to China, and now to Mexico.
Viva la Tea Party!!!
September 18th, 2010 at 11:10 am
Lately when MFD is at something like a battery, and unit on scene wants dispatch to check on when MPD will be there, dispatch will come back and ask if the suspect is still on scene or in the area. Sometimes Med unit or private ambo will transport and any other MFD unit will go back to quarters because all MPD keeps saying is the call is still pending. Last night Tosa dispatch said MPD is “extremely busy”
Milwaukee had about 3 homicides in the last week, the ones that just get shot in the leg or arm, or have minor stab wound don’t count, and may not even be mentioned by media.
September 18th, 2010 at 11:23 am
I guess he didn’t feel like taking any questions.
September 18th, 2010 at 11:26 am
That’s essentially the new MPD Dispatch policy: Caller to 911, “Somebody just tried to break into my house!” 911, “Is he still onscene?” Caller, “I don’t think so.” 911, “We’ll send somebody as soon as we can, but it may be awhile.” How many times does a caller have to hear this before they stop calling and just “handle it” themselves?
Think the above hypothetical example is an exaggeration? I’ve got proof from actual Dispatch records that are much more disturbing.
September 18th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Rawson, I don’t know why Obama didn’t simply respond with, “Because I can” or maybe the Pelosi answer of “We got more votes”. Hell, I’m sure the lefties would understand if a Republican was doing this, and I hope we do when we take this country back from the Marxists and Anarchists who have hijacked it.
September 19th, 2010 at 12:28 am
Is Ryan Haggerty going to have his picture on a milk carton? He has missed the last week of violence on his blog. Or maybe is it just that crime is down? 16 killings in 30 days and crime is down, must be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWOlTzCJ3_o
September 19th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Chip,
Crime is down. This is not open to discussion.
You saw the interview. Flynn says ‘crime is down,’ so crime is down. Stop asking questions.
Go, play in the streets. Drive your Bentley around town with the doors unlocked, and the windows down. Flaunt your bling. Flash big ‘ol wads of cash, everywhere you go. Sleep with your baby-mama’s younger sister. Hell, sleep with your baby-mama’s older mama.
You’ll be fine. All is well. Crime is down.
September 19th, 2010 at 8:57 am
James E. Causey writes some pretty good columns for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and this is one of them: http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/103170989.html
September 19th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Because I like you all, I would like to share with you an almost foolproof plan I have devised for avoiding the horror of being wrongly imprisoned for espionage in Iran:
DO NOT GO HIKING ON THE FREAKING BORDER OF IRAQ AND IRAN.
Hello? McFly? Is the caller there?
Sheesh.
September 19th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Rawson, this is going to be the toughest year ever to prioritize the Darwin Award winners. They all seem to be equally deserving.
September 19th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Where is Ryan Haggerty? http://www.jsonline.com/general/27664284.html
September 19th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Remember about two weeks ago, I had a neighbor that had a rock thrown through his living room window two days in a row? Well last night, about 4AM, another neighbor looked out the window and seen a couple lawn chairs and a plastic table in the street front of that guys house. He called the police to report what he saw, and they sent 3 squads to investigate. Police were seen on foot with flashlights going through yards.
I guess it’s a good thing that police seem to be taking the increasing crime in my neighborhood more seriously. They went from not even sending an officer to a prowler in my fenced in back yard, to sending three squads to investigate suspicious lawn furniture.
September 19th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
We were trying to set up one of those instant gazebo thingys, but the winds were picking up, and we were having a really hard time getting the spikes to hold in the concrete, so we gave up. I guess we should have gone back for the table and chairs, but it was late, and we didn’t want to wake anyone. So much for tonight’s bonfire. Damn.