Stories tagged: "Police reform"

Law and Policy Rep. Jim Steineke speaking
Law and Policy Has Qualified Police Immunity Become Absolute Immunity? Task Force Is Divided.

Police defend the controversial doctrine while activists and a former Republican Assembly candidate criticize it.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski February 26, 2021 4:24 pm CST
Law and Policy A police officer draws a gun
Law and Policy Could Wisconsin Be the Next State to Overhaul Qualified Immunity Protection for Police?

Task Force on Racial Disparities begins discussion on the controversial legal doctrine during a Kenosha meeting.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski February 25, 2021 2:53 pm CST
Law and Policy Joseph Mensah
Law and Policy Waukesha Sheriff Hires Joseph Mensah, Former Cop Who Killed Three People in Five Years

Sheriff claims he had an “exhaustive hiring process.”

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski January 26, 2021 1:15 pm CST
Social Justice Wausau protest march
Social Justice Cities Across Wisconsin Attempt Police Reform. Here’s How They’re Doing.

Where the march for social justice confronts the hurdles of forming new policy.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski Julian Emerson Julian Emerson October 7, 2020 3:57 pm CDT
Law and Policy Jim Palmer is executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the state's largest law enforcement organization. (Photo provided)
Law and Policy Op-Ed: A Blueprint for Change Is Critical for Communities and Cops Alike

Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, says the reform proposal “highlights our desire to help facilitate meaningful action on these issues. And act we must.”

Jim Palmer Jim Palmer September 23, 2020 6:00 am CDT

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) holds a press conference on April 13 where he demands Gov. Tony Evers accept severe restrictions on local health officials, schools, and the governor himself in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in federal supplemental COVID food aid. (Image via Wisconsin Eye.) Politics Evers and Timberlake Find a Way to Bypass Vos’ Willingness to Lose Millions in Food Aid for Families
An archival image of the Plainfield Tunnel Channel Lakes in Waushara County, which have experienced a reduction in water levels due to groundwater withdrawals for irrigated agriculture. (Photo credit: Wisconsin DNR) Natural Resources Clean Water at Stake as WI Supreme Court Hears Appeals to Take GOP Restrictions Off the DNR
Left: A sewer line under construction along St. Paul Avenue in Milwaukee in 1920. Right: Victor Berger, co-founder of the Socialist Party of America, editor of the Milwaukee Leader, and the first Socialist elected to Congress. Lower: Construction of a Milwaukee sewer line in 1932. (Photos courtesy: Wisconsin Historical Society and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Graphic by Morgaine Ford-Workman.) Infrastructure Infrastructure Is Good Politics—Just Ask Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists of 1904
The state Capitol in Madison is reflected off the windows of an office building across the street. (Photo by Julian Emerson) Politics Not Allowed: Nonpartisan Analysis Finds a Flaw in GOP Plans for Wisconsin Stimulus Money
Politics Rep. Shelia Stubbs (D-Madison) joins activists and community leaders Aug. 31, 2020, at the Capitol in calling for lawmakers to act on police reform bills. (Photo © Andy Manis)
Politics Assembly Dem Agrees to Co-Chair Task Force on Race After GOP Refuse to Act on Bills

Goal to have bipartisan package of bills ready for start of next legislative session in January.

Jessica VanEgeren Jessica VanEgeren September 8, 2020 4:39 pm CDT
Elections Trump Isn't Going To Like This Wisconsin Poll
Elections Trump Isn’t Going To Like This Wisconsin Poll

Views on police vary, but reform supported.

Pat Kreitlow Pat Kreitlow June 25, 2020 9:41 am CDT