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April 29, 2013 at 11:17 am · Filed under Cop Talk
Within the past three months, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars of his personal wealth to produce slick ads in support of gun control. Just last week, America’s nanny-state mayor lectured his subjects by proclaiming that “…our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution I think have to change,” due to potential terror threats.
A new Fox News poll, however, illustrates that for the first time since 9/11, more Americans say that they are unwilling to concede additional freedoms to off-set the risks of terrorist attacks.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-fear-government-more-than-terror/
Reading between the lines, the reason for this shift in public opinion seems clear: Americans realize that, in the name of fighting terrorism, the federal government has hijacked the Bill of Rights to monitor them instead of focusing its efforts on Islamic Jihadists.
“Think about it,” I noted in an April 20 post, “how do the surveillance cameras mounted atop traffic control signals on 124th and Burleigh prevent acts of terrorism? Wasting taxpayer dollars to conduct surveillance of Americans diverts resources from the real problem: extremist groups and foreign nationals overstaying student visas that pose a real threat to this nation’s security.”
After all, the Boston Marathon bombings spotlighted the federal government’s intelligence failures. During one news report, an FBI source, a journalist explained, said that the bureau gets thousands of tips every year, similar to the ones provided by the Russian government, but lacks the resources to thoroughly investigate each one.
Really?
According to creditable sources, the U.S. government has spent $500 billion creating a nationwide surveillance state. Yet, we are told, this unprecedented amount of money, which flowed far too freely from our treasury, is not nearly enough? To put things in perspective, this amount of cash is so large that could underwrite the budgets of the City of Milwaukee for the next 333 years.
Surely, $500 billion is an excessive amount, some of which was needlessly wasted placing surveillance cameras at intersections in locales like Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a city of 60,000. Unless the bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security—the agency that disperses federal grant money to states and municipalities—believe that, when selecting potential targets, blindfolded Jihadists simply throw darts at a map of the United States, spending so much as a dime to place surveillance infrastructure in a city like Eau Claire does absolutely nothing to protect our nation from acts of terror.
Moreover, the federal government’s failures in Boston exposed the duplicity of politicians, as the current mayor of Chicago once said, intent on using a good crisis to funnel gobs of money to large corporations—members of the post 9/11 security-industrial complex—that either directly, or through their K Street lobbyists, write large checks to the campaigns of their supporters on Capitol Hill.
Telling the American people that the billions of dollars this country has literally thrown at 1,900 private sector companies, as well as the 800,000 people that take part in counter terrorism activities, is not enough is a scandal in itself. Clearly, some people have no shame.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His latest print edition only book, Best of the Spingola Files, Volumes I & II, is now available at Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Spingola-Files-Volume-Steven/dp/0979683998/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364048098&sr=8-1&keywords=best+of+the+spingola+files
If your organization is on the lookout for an outstanding guest speaker, please consider the Spingola Files’ Psychology of Homicide presentation.
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© Steven Spingola, Wales, WI, 2013
April 7, 2013 at 2:03 pm · Filed under Cop Talk
As documented by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a sting operation run by the Milwaukee branch of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) solidified the concept of Murphy’s Law into the arena of criminal investigations.
Snafus are nothing new to law enforcement. The Jeffrey Dahmer case is prime example. During one contact, the serial killer managed to slip through the fingers of officers. Then, once Dahmer was in custody, guards at the jail asked the killer to autograph a newspaper bearing his likeness. Of course, grandstanding politicians—primarily John Norquist, Milwaukee’s mayor at the time—used these embarrassing mistakes as a catalyst to ‘transform’ the Milwaukee Police Department, which caused a Grand Canyon-sized rift between Police Chief Phil Arreola and the MPD’s rank-and-file. Ironically, karma has a way of keeping score, as a real scandal—one that resulted in the moniker “Johnny Appleseed” being uttered by a snickering few—paved the way for the then mayor’s exit.
In the ATF case, a series of discomfiting events gave the Riverwest Operation a black eye.
“Of all the mistakes by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in its flawed gun-buying sting in Milwaukee last year,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters John Diedrich and Raquel Rutledge wrote, “the loss of the government-owned Colt M4 stands as the gravest threat to public safety.”
The M4, a high-powered rifle with the ability to fire multiple rounds with one pull of the trigger, was stolen from an agent’s SUV while the vehicle was parked at a local coffee shop. After an intense search that yielded solid suspects, the rifle remains in the wind.
And, while the ATF’s sting ran amuck, the operation did shed some light on property crime in the Riverwest area, as burglars snared $40,000 worth of merchandise the store front rented by the agency to conduct the sting.
Now, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the ATF used a 28-year-old man with a diminished mental capacity to distribute fliers and solicit the public to visit the store. Later, the man was indicted on firearms related charges related to the operation.
The negative press emanating from this failed sting comes on the heels of the little covered U.S. Supreme Court decision in Millbrook v. the United States. In a rare unanimous decision, the court held that the U.S. government can be held liable for abuses intentionally carried out by law enforcement officers as a result of their employment. However, the individual agents have little to fear financially. Under the Federal Torts Courts Claim Act (FTCA), it is the taxpayers that are left holding the bag.
“FTCA judgments are paid by an unlimited fund provided by Congress,” said attorney Jeff Bucholtz, an attorney who argued against Millbrook, “so it doesn’t hurt prison guards or their supervisors when judgments are paid out under the statute.”
After the Operation Fast and Furious debacle—an ATF operation that oversaw the transfer of firearms to Mexcian narco-gang members; whereby, one of the weapons was later used to murder a U.S. Border Patrol agent—you can bet the missing M4 stolen from the Milwaukee agent’s SUV is causing many sleepless nights for ATF bureaucrats.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His latest print edition only book, Best of the Spingola Files, Volumes I & II, is now available at Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Spingola-Files-Volume-Steven/dp/0979683998/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364048098&sr=8-1&keywords=best+of+the+spingola+files
If your organization is on the lookout for an outstanding guest speaker, please consider the Spingola Files’ Psychology of Homicide presentation.
For more information, visit www.badgerwordsmith.com and click the “seminars & presentations” icon.
© Steven Spingola, Wales, WI, 2013
March 7, 2013 at 4:02 pm · Filed under Cop Talk
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Jr.
One of the most polarizing figures in southeastern Wisconsin is Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. In a sense, Clarke is kind of a duck out of water—a law-and-order conservative who was elected to office as a Democrat in a liberal county, even though he often aligns himself with Republican office holders.
One would think, though, that the sheriff’s Dirty Harry persona would resonate well with members of his department’s rank-and-file and other county sheriffs, especially his unrelenting, mano-a-mano efforts to thwart the gun-grabbers. Instead, Clarke’s take-the-bull-by-the horns management style has alienated those who should be his biggest supporters, namely the deputies whose jobs he has fought obstinately to spare from the chopping block.
Having worked with David Clarke in the Milwaukee Police Department’s homicide unit, I am well aware of his passion for victims’ rights and his respect for the values enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Philosophically, when it comes to the role of law enforcement and public safety, there’s probably not a dime’s worth of difference between Sheriff Clarke and I. That being said our styles of management are the antithesis of each other’s.
Whereas, Clarke—an official elected by the public—embodies a top-down approach to organizational leadership, I generally prefer to delegate the administration of most tasks to qualified managers and/or subordinates. After all, the sheriff, the chief-of-police, captains, and, to a lesser extent, shift commanders, are department heads or managers who just so happen to carry guns. Their primary focus should consist of fostering relationships with those controlling their department’s budgets, setting the agency’s agenda, getting buy-in from those under their command, maintaining discipline within the ranks, and communicating effectively with the public.
No doubt, on occasion, high-ranking law enforcement administrators will have their differences with judges, the district attorney’s office, members of the media, and the mayor and/or the county executive. Typically, though, smoothing out these differences behind the scenes enables an elected department head or a de facto political appointee, such a police chief, to further advance their agency’s agenda and improve public safety.
Whether it is out of frustration or an unwillingness to capitulate core values, Sheriff Clarke has aired a lot of dirty laundry in public—calling out Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers, claiming that Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele suffers from “penis envy,” and apologizing in a letter to U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham for Chief Flynn’s antiquated and nonsensical testimony in support of an semi-automatic rifle ban.
Nonetheless, when given an opportunity, Clarke is a very effective communicator. Even Piers Morgan made note of the sheriff’s “Hollywood voice.”
Yesterday, I had an opportunity to listen to Sheriff Clarke as he filled-in for Milwaukee talk-radio host Mark Belling during the show’s Five- O’clock hour on WISN radio. If and when Clarke decides to retire his gun-and-badge, he most definitely has a future as a talk-radio host (to catch a short portion of the sheriff’s performance, click the link to the following Podcast):
http://www.belling.com/player/?station=BLNG-IP&program_name=podcast&program_id=MarkBelling.xml&mid=22953955
No doubt, Clarke came armed with a lot more than the emotional rhetoric Chief Flynn regurgitated during an appearance before a U.S. Senate sub-committee. In Milwaukee County, the sheriff noted, over a 12-year period only 44 percent of the cases brought to the DA’s office involving the straw purchases of guns for felons where charged, which resulted in offenders serving an average of just seven months for a crime that carries a maximum penalty of ten-years in prison.
Personally, as far as WISN radio hosts are concerned, I would prefer to hear more of Sheriff Clarke and less from two of the other infrequently used fill-ins, whose attached-at-the-hip relationship to the special interest, Patriot Act-wing of Republican Party is rather dull and predictable. If Clarke can broaden his repertoire to include other issues, his stock as a talk-radio host will rise exponentially.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His latest book, Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. II: Here’s Looking at You, is available at Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Spingola-Files-Vol-ebook/dp/B00AGZTALE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354972268&sr=8-1&keywords=spingola+files
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files’ Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, please visit:
www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
© Steven Spingola, Wales, WI, 2013
February 24, 2013 at 12:29 pm · Filed under Cop Talk
Cities become dysfunctional for a reason. In some places, such as Chicago, the governing class has historically relied on political patronage; whereby, members of a specific ethnic or racial background are brought into the Democrat Party infrastructure with the belief that they can control the violence of competing criminal enterprises within their districts.
In Chicago, the Daley machine is dead. Just over a decade ago, President Bush, at the advice of a former U.S. Senator from Illinois, appointed Patrick Fitzgerald—an outsider from New York—as the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois. Under Fitzgerald’s watch, federal officials indicated several high profile targets, including former Illinois Governors George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich, Chicago City Clerk James Laski, as well as a number of top aides to former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Fitzgerald and federal law enforcement also targeted the hierarchy of Chicago’s street gangs, like the the New Breed—an off-shoot of the Black Disciples—and the Latin Kings, who employed police officers to shake down rivals.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/11/18/chicago-cops-among-those-indicted-in-drug-conspiracy/
On the other hand, the Daley machine picked its own poison when it appointed Jody Weis as Chicago’s Police Superintendent in 2008. A former FBI agent, Weis chose to focus his wrath on his own officers while treating the criminal element with kid gloves.
Consequently, with top gang members occupying federal prison cells and Weis’ unwillingness to assert control, a power vacuum ensued, resulting in a number of smaller gangs going to war over lucrative drug turf. Last year, the homicide clearance rate in Chicago was just 33 percent, one of the lowest of any American city with a population over 500,000.
The following article by National Review’s Kevin Williamson gives readers a behind the scenes look at Chicago’s gangster subculture and why it is tearing that city apart.
https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/340053/gangsterville
Now, Chicago has turned to a new top-cop, Garry McCarthy, a former Newark, New Jersey, police chief and a former member of the NYPD command staff. However, instead using a decentralized approach to crackdown on street gangs, McCarthy seems intent of carrying water for gun control advocates.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/isra-chicago-police-superintendent-mccarthy-crosses-the-line-191588711.html
Dysfunction breeds dysfunction, which, in urban areas, often stems from an overdose of political correctness.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His latest book, Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. II: Here’s Looking at You, is available at Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Spingola-Files-Vol-ebook/dp/B00AGZTALE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354972268&sr=8-1&keywords=spingola+files
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files’ Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, please visit:
www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
© Steven Spingola, Wales, WI, 2013
February 17, 2013 at 11:23 pm · Filed under Cop Talk
Madison PD Officer Stephen Heimsness
The term “cozen”—meaning deception to win gain by shrewd trickery—is typically the antithesis of the word “noble,” although this rule of the English language might no longer apply in some quarters of our state’s capitol, where some seasoned law enforcement veterans believe Police Officer Stephen Heimsness is in the process of getting railroaded.
This leads one to wonder: is the Madison Police Department’s version of The Cozen Protocol being hatched inside the offices of its chief-of-police, Noble Wray, with his internal investigators playing the perfunctory roles of Bullpen Detectives John Spinelli and Bob Hillmeyer?
At 2:45 AM on November 9 of last year, Heimsness responded to a report of a possible entry in progress at a home on Madison’s isthmus. As he approached the residence, the officer observed the homeowner struggling with a man, later identified a Paul Heenan. The intoxicated man then moved towards the officer and, according to Heimsness, Heenan reached for his gun. The two men then began to grapple. Believing that the only reason an attacker would seek to disarm a police officer is to turn the gun against him, Heimsness fired three shots, killing Heenan.
Of course the residents of Madison are acting like the far-left residents that they are—a town that the late Wisconsin Gov. Lee Dreyfus once described as “Thirty-square miles surrounded by a sea of reality.” From the comfort of their coffee houses on Williamson and State Streets many Madisonians are now expert armchair cops, second-guessing Heimsness at every turn, even though they know that about one-in-ten police officers murdered each year are killed with their own firearms.
http://www.policeone.com/close-quarters-combat/articles/100228-Cases-of-Officers-Killed-by-Their-Own-Guns-Likely-Will-Not-Change-R-I-Policies/
Other former Madison officers active in liberal causes have also stalked the flames burning under Heimsness’ feet. Cheri Maples, a former police captain who now serves as a Buddhist teacher, told the Wisconsin State Journal that while she was “…not in a position to question Officer Heimsness’ statement that he feared for his life, I sincerely believe few officers would have made the same choice in the same set of circumstances.”
After reading Maples’ quote, many current and former law enforcement officers are probably wondering if the former captain was ever in the same position as Heimsness—in a struggle with an intoxicated person reaching for her firearm? My guess is that she was not, which is why Maples used the third person when referencing what officers would do in the same circumstance.
My suggestion to both Maples and Wisconsin State Journal reporter Sandy Cullen is this: why not interview police officers who actually walked-a-mile in Heimsness’ shoes? In some instances, I recognize that this might be difficult to do, since many of them are now deceased.
Meanwhile, I believe, Madison’s police chief, Noble Wray, appears to want it both ways. While he has steadfastly defended Heimsness’ actions in regards to the shooting, Wray, it seems, is beginning to buckle under the pressure brought to bear by the city’s left-wing political establishment.
On February 3, Wray announced that the Madison Police Department had opened three “new” investigations of Heimsness’ conduct unrelated to the shooting or to the use of force.
“Although these investigations are not complete,” Wray told the Wisconsin State Journal, “I find the preliminary information to be troubling.”
Whatever happened to the Madison Police Department’s policy of not commenting about ongoing internal investigations?
Moreover, negatively commenting on an internal investigation prior to its conclusion seems to run counter to civil service law. Wisconsin State Statute 62.13(5)(em)3, states, that a police chief must “…before filing the charge against the subordinate, made a reasonable effort to discover whether the subordinate did in fact violate a rule or order.” How can the chief-of-police claim that he made a “reasonable effort” to substantiate a charge against an officer after he publicly claimed that “preliminary” information, absent all the facts, is “troubling”?
In preparation for this post, SF reached out to those who understand the internal politics of the Madison Police Department, as well as those that know Officer Heimsness. To a person, they had good things to say about Heimsness, although they also believed he is soon to fall victim to Madison’s version of The Cozen Protocol.
When asked if the Madison PD was collecting dirt so they can threaten Officer Heimsness with the loss of his job and force him to resign, one officer replied, “You are right on. Things are not good.”
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His latest book, Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. II: Here’s Looking at You, is available at Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Spingola-Files-Vol-ebook/dp/B00AGZTALE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354972268&sr=8-1&keywords=spingola+files
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files’ Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, please visit:
www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
© Steven Spingola, Wales, WI, 2013
November 27, 2012 at 7:08 pm · Filed under Cop Talk
In several earlier posts, the Spingola Files (SF) reported that local police departments in southeastern Wisconsin might soon be using drones to conduct surveillance.
http://www.badgerwordsmith.com/spingolafiles/2012/06/08/the-judge-and-drones/
Last week, SF learned, through a good source, that the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) is seriously considering procuring at least four drones at a cost of $15,000 each. While the MPD is carefully researching and considering its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) options, a likely candidate is the Draganfly X-6 drone, which weighs less than five pounds. These hover craft are equipped with high definition cameras and also have infrared capabilities.
Federal law currently permits law enforcement agencies to operate drones weighing less than 30 pounds without authorization from the FAA. The UAV operator, however, is required to maintain a line-of-sight visual of the flying object.
The Draganflyer X-6 is electric and makes little noise while hovering. The X-6 ‘s power source is an easy to install battery pack. When the battery runs low, a computer directs the drone to return to the operator, who then installs a fresh battery. This particular UAV does have the capability to see through the walls of buildings with the use of infrared heat sensors. The X-6 can also follow vehicles and zoom-in to capture its license plate, as well as images of the vehicle’s occupants.
Last month, the Seattle Police Department announced that it is set to deploy the Draganflyer X-6. To get closer look this particular UAV, view the below link.
http://www.infowars.com/seattle-police-to-roll-out-surveillance-drones-with-infrared-cameras/
“The drawback to this type of drone [the X-6],” said a source “is that it can’t be operated from a remote location. Ultimately, law enforcement will want this type of capability—rendering expensive helicopters obsolete.”
Make no mistake about it, though, the smaller Draganflyer X-6 UAV is a valuable tool. During protests or civil disturbances, the MPD could conduct surveillance of crowds, stream live video to a command center, and then store photographs and video of participants. Operatives at the MPD’s Intelligence Fusion center, using facial recognition software, could then, in less than an hour, identify those involved by comparing photographs from Wisconsin’s Real ID biometric database—obtained from drivers’ licenses, ID cards, and/or booking photos.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His book, Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. I, is available at Amazon.com
Spingola’s soon-to-be-released book, Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. II: Here’s Looking at You, is set for release in December 2012.
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files’ Psychology of Homicide presentation.
For more information, please visit:
www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
© Steven Spingola, Wales, WI, 2012
October 6, 2012 at 11:51 am · Filed under Cop Talk
To view this article, please checkout Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. I & II available now at Amazon.com in December of 2012.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His new book, Best of the Spingola Files, is now available at Amazon.com.
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, visit
www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
or
www.badgerwordsmith.com/books.html
© Steven Spingola,Wales, WI, 2012
September 29, 2012 at 1:05 pm · Filed under Cop Talk
Since his ascension to Milwaukee County Sheriff via appointment by then Gov. Scott McCallum, David Clarke, Jr. has never been afraid of controversy.
The leaders of the sheriff’s rank-and-file union bristle at Clarke’s no-holds barred management style. Critics also claim that the sheriff is by no means a consensus builder. Yet one thing is certain: very few Milwaukee County residents can claim that they are unsure where the sheriff stands on issues of public safety.
In addition, it is no secret that Sheriff Clarke and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett mix like oil-and-water. The personalities of these two leaders, their political philosophies, and their management styles are the antithesis of each other.
Clarke, an African-American, is a law-and-order conservative; Barrett, who is white, is a touchy-feely liberal.
The mayor believes in leading by consensus, while the sheriff’s inspiration is Rudy Giuliani’s take the bull-by-the-horns style of leadership.
Barrett’s critics claim he is virtually invisible when it comes to critical issues facing the city. One of the mayor’s critics, WTMJ talk-radio host Charlie Sykes, notes that Barrett’s mug might appear on the side of a milk carton—a reference to a missing person. Clarke, on the other hand, is hands-on, very passionate about his public policy positions, and flamboyant in public. He is, on occasion, observed in cowboy garb while visiting Mitchell International Airport.
In the middle is Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele, a relative newcomer to executive office. A trust fund baby, Abele lacks any meaningful administrative experience, which, his critics argue, makes him little more than a sock puppet for Mayor Barrett.
One need not scratch too far below the surface to unravel the Barrett-Abele conspiracy to defund the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s office.
By state law, Sheriff Clarke is a constitutionally elected official. In other words, unless the Barrett-Abele axis can defeat Clarke in an election, there’s not much Milwaukee’s liberal leaders can do to run the sheriff out of town. Instead, the county executive and the mayor have taken a different approach: minimizing Clarke’s ability to lead by gutting the sheriff’s budget.
Last year, Abele’s county budget resulted in significant layoffs of Milwaukee County Sheriff’s deputies, some of whom had nearly a decade on the job. This stab at Clarke reduced jail staffing to dangerous levels while using dedicated law enforcement professionals as pawns in a political power play.
The latest Machiavellian maneuver from the Barrett-Abele axis guts the sheriff’s budget by another $3.3 million by transferring patrols of the county parks from the sheriff’s department to local municipalities. The political scam, though, is in the details. Over $1.7 million—about 93 percent of the money dispatched to municipal law enforcement agencies to patrol the county parks in their jurisdictions—goes to one agency: the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD). This even though the vast majority of county park real estate is outside the Milwaukee city limits. Suburban law enforcement agencies would each receive, on average, about $7,000 apiece.
Talk to law enforcement veterans from Milwaukee County and, almost to a person, they chuckle when asked about MPD becoming the county park police.
“Besides county parks, there are also city parks in Milwaukee, where Milwaukee police are currently assigned,” said one former MPD veteran. “What kind of patrols do these city parks receive? No more attention than any other block in any squad area. As such, one can see where this is going. Barrett and Flynn will take the $1.7 million paid by Milwaukee County taxpayers, including those living in the suburbs, to off-set the MPD’s budget, while doing little, besides patrolling the Lake Park and Bradford Beach areas.”
Suburban Milwaukee County taxpayers should voice outrage by Chris Abele’s sloppy wet kiss to Tom Barrett’s city budget. This deal is so bad that the term ‘sock puppet’ is too flattering a reference to Abele, although the other euphemisms offered by some former coppers to address the specifics of the Barrett-Abele political relationship are not fit for print.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His new book, Best of the Spingola Files, is now available at Amazon.com.
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, visit
www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
or
www.badgerwordsmith.com/books.html
© Steven Spingola,Wales, WI, 2012
August 22, 2012 at 1:04 am · Filed under Cop Talk
To view this article, please checkout Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. I & II available now at Amazon.com.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His new book, Best of the Spingola Files, is now available at Amazon.com.
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, visit www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
or
www.badgerwordsmith.com/books.html
© Steven Spingola,Wales, WI, 2012
June 8, 2012 at 3:56 am · Filed under Cop Talk
To view this article, checkout Best of the Spingola Files, Vol. II: Here’s Looking at You coming to Amazon.com in December 2012.
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Steve Spingola is an author and retired Milwaukee Police Department homicide detective. His new book, Best of the Spingola Files, Volume I, is now available at Amazon.com.
If your group is in need of a fascinating guest speaker, consider the Spingola Files Psychology of Homicide presentation. For more information, visit:
www.badgerwordsmith.com/the_psychology_of_homicide_presentation.html
© Steven Spingola, Wales, WI, 2012
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