CC Recap – Chronic Nuisance Ordinance
The Equal Opportunities Commission was shut out of the original process, promised that they could have their say and asked to report back to...
Loitering
Yet another issue where I can just recycle my folders full of paper. When this issue came back I was a little...
Thursday Round Up
Thursday round up, round two this week. I'm not sure if it is lazy blogging or just still too much to blog about....
Downtown Residents Concerns – Not Police.
Last night, downtown Alders Verveer, Rummel and myself (Eli Judge was ill) met with the Capitol Neighborhoods group to discuss issues of concern to...
Solving "Crime" – Feel Good Ordinances or Real Solutions?
Amen! Paul Soglin said it pretty well - except for the part where he said half the city council is making it hard...
Westside Crackdown – Help or Harm?
In an effort to think more about policing, I've been reading various materials. This one article, has stuck in my mind for various...
Oooops! 1.9 still equals 2.4, but . . . .
The problem with blogging, is sometimes you make a mistake, then do you erase and fix, or do you just note the problem? ...
Crime Snapshot
These two graphs from the Madison Police Department speak volumes about the reality of crime rates in Madison.Population Growth in the City of MadisonNumber...
Triggered!
Recently there has been too many cases of random bullets entering houses. This exact bullet was found in someone's house, head high, on...
I didn’t see that in the Halloween Budget!
Plasma screen tvs for the police department?Where was that in the budget?Watching channel 3 this morning I learned that the police department has a...
Crime: Is it up? Or down?
Answer is: It depends upon what you look at.Here are some interesting numbers I ran across about the last year . . ....
State of the City: An analysis
A whole lotta pro-business. A dash of police state and anti-progressive. Zero progressive. Here's the old and new initiatives he talked...