Public Safety

Answer is: It depends upon what you look at.Here are some interesting numbers I ran across about the last year . . ....

Every budget, we have a discussion about how many police to add . . . and recently, mayoral candidate Ray Allen called for 6...

So, I wasn't going to blog today, but . . . I came home last night after being sniffly all day, made...

This is an awful policing tactic, why bother with evidence and probable cause and all those pesky rights and due process afforded people in our criminal justice system if you can just accuse them of something they have not done yet and get them deported without letting them have an opportunity to defend themselves . . . and this time, its not the Sheriff, its the Madison Police Department . . .

If you have time, take some time to read the policing thread over at thedailypage.com. It's clearly one of the most interesting threads...

Every year the Clerk's office sends out an email reminding committee staff not to schedule meetings on certain dates. The memo states as...

Rarely, have I seen:a) such a colossal brazen attempt to get media attentionb) over a "feel-good",c) "solution-in-search-of-a-problem" ordinanced) that has "unintended consequences",e) has "no...

At the last council meeting, we stopped crime in Madison. Well, not really. We passed two ordinances, one that would stop new...

I'm not kidding. You can be the media . . . radio, tv, blog . . . your choice! It kind of sucks to...

Reading the WSJ is always a scary experience, but this morning, it was particularly scary . . . Mostly, I was surprised by this...

I wish I had more time to dig into this issue, but here's what I know . . .

Do you see yourself being helped by what he lays out in his "speech"? Does this sound like the direction you want your...