Madison Fatal Police Shootings on the Rise. Why?

Why are our Madison police officers killing more people?

This graphic is from Greg Gelembiuk, who also testified about this at the council on Tuesday and has mentioned this in multiple community meetings.

ny vs mad killings

Note:  Koval started training officers 15 years ago when the numbers begin to rise.

Info below shamelessly gotten from Madison.com but you likely can’t see it if you haven’t paid or worked around their system or just don’t look at their website.

1990s – 8 shootings (3 fatal, 37.5%)
1990 – none

1991 – none

1992 – Robert Rassmusson (July 5)
1992 – Robert Cook (July 12) – fatal

1993 – none

1994 – Alpio Pena-Avila (May 24) – fatal

1995 – Carl Kirchstein (Feb 25)
1995 – Curtis Rogge (April 25)
1995 – Kathrine “Kitty” Barber (Dec 1)

1996 – none

1997 – Timothy Wing (March 21) – fatal
1997 – Geoffrey Gibson (May 1)

1998 – none

1999 – none

2000s – 8 shootings (6 fatal, 75%)
2000 – none

Chief Koval begins training officers (at forums he said he has been doing this for 15 years and has trained nearly everyone in the department).

2001 – Jesse Johnson (Aug 28) – fatal

2002 – none

2003 – Julio Ceasar Contreras (July 25) – fatal
2003 – Douglas Timmers (Nov 11)

2004 – Gregory Valesquez (May 9) – fatal
2004 – Carlos Toledo Rubio (June 14)

2005 – none

2006 – Victor Montero Diaz (April 12) – fatal

2007 – Ronald Branton (July 15) – fatal

2008 – none

2009 – Gregory Bickford (Oct 7) – fatal

2010s – 6 shootings (6 fatal, 100%)

2010 – none

2011 – none

2012 – Paul Heenan (Nov 9) – fatal

2013 – Brent Brozek (May 17) – fatal
2013 – Charles Carll (August 17) – fatal

April 11, 2014 – Koval Named Police Chief

2014 – Londrell Johnson (May 2) – fatal
2014 – Ashley DiPiazza (May 18) – fatal

2015 – Tony Robinson (March 6) – fatal

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