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From: Soglin, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 9:58 AM
To: All Alders
Cc: MY GROUP
Subject: Midtown Police Station
Note the location of the existing police stations. Yes, the Midtown station will cover the area mid-west in term of sending officer to a site. Keep this in mind:
– Officers are on patrol in sectors covering the entire city; that is not determined by the existence of a station.
– Midtown will not have an appreciable effect on the coverage of patrol officers.
– Midtown will have an impact in the rare instances when officers are sent not form their patrol areas but from the station itself to the area immediately around the new station:
– – The area around the new station is one of the lowest volume areas of the city.
– – The new station will have MINIMUM impact of the areas west, southwest, central, and south served by existing stations. Aldermanic districts 19, 20,1, 9, 13, 8, 14, and 4 will have virtually
– – NO impact from the opening of MIDTOWN. It will not change their service levels. Any service levels are made by staffing which is independent of the opening of the station.
How and why do we justify creating a more serious dilemma in terms of our borrowing, an already dangerous situation, by constructing the station three months earlier?
Yes, there is overcrowding in the police stations. We all have space problems.; just look at Madison Metro, the City Attorney’s office, the problems that plagued the occupants of the MMB for the past ten years. I suggest we try to provide more long term stability to the entire city rather than advance the station by 2-3 months.
