There’s also some sort of scandal involving the Milwaukee police, isn’t there? Oh, yes, there is: Milwaukee Police Accused Of Performing Illegal Body Cavity Searches.
Oh, and there’s the crime statistics book-cooking scandal.
Plus a policy favoring illegal assaults on gun owners.
Then there’s that whole vote-fraud business.
June 1, 2012
"Nice police department you got there, Mayor Barrett."
Says Instapundit, linking to my post about the man with the pro-Walker sign who was arrested by the Milwaukee police today. He adds:
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Meet John Doe.
wv: "ingstoc".
Just one letter from pure wv magic.
I guess we can assume the Mayor approves of the stifling of dissent. No Longer Patriotic.
Nothing is so dangerous as a cruelly neutral kitty.
The cops were likely on a detail paid by Barrett campaign.
I'm still wondering about the details of the incident.
Dang, I need a hot-air Popcorn maker. Getting too stinking fat with all the Wisconsin crap-o-la going on.
Milwaukee Police and Firefighters unions endorsed Walker, go figure.
Here's my idea, which assumes joint and several liability (which is when a plaintiff can collect all or part of the verdict from any defendant):
When people sue for these kinds of things, as I would hope happens here, they will name the officers as well as the city corporation. While it's common to collect from the city, because that's who has the money, in cases like this one I think winning plaintiffs should pointedly collect -- hard -- from the police officers themselves. Take their homes, their cars, their spouses' jewelry, and their savings. Force them into bankruptcy, and then show up at the bankruptcy hearing.
A few cases like that, just a few, and civil rights will bloom like a thousand flowers.
Milwaukee's Edward SS-und PolizieFuhrer Flynn is also a self-admitted felon (Adultery, still a felony even though the Legislature has had many opportunities to change that status).
"Last week Mike Sandvick, head of the Milwaukee Police Department's five-man Special Investigative Unit, was told by superiors not to send anyone to polling places on Election Day. He was also told his unit -- which wrote the book on how fraud could subvert the vote in his hometown -- would be disbanded."
The left likes to claim that there isn't any evidence of voter fraud. Hard to find evidence when you shut down the people tasked to look for it.
When Walker gets reelected, I'd like to see him take down the fire fighter and police unions. Both are almost as bad as teachers' unions.
"Illegal Body Cavity Searches"?
Well, now we know why Willie was there.
AllieOop said...
Milwaukee Police and Firefighters unions endorsed Walker, go figure.
Maybe they don't like what the PD command is doing.
Or maybe they realize they're part of the problem.
Go figure.
This is entirely standard policing procedures throughout the land. There is nothing remarkable about this.
The police serve the interests of the powerful, and act largely as security guards for the property owners and their lackeys in government. Brutality is more the order of the day than is "civil" service to the public at large. If you told a cop today he was supposed to be a "peace officer," he would likely take it as an insult and accusation, and thump your ass for your insolence.
There are better and worse police departments, and certainly better and worse individual police officers, but the prevailing mode of operation of police nationwide has become militarized, and even "good" cops largely acquiesce to the code of blue, and the worst elements of policy and individual practice go unchallenged and unpunished.
After the recall Walker should encompass the collective bargaining law to the all civil service employees including the cops and fireman. Then he should man up and pass a right to work law and strip civil servants of qualified immunity and go for voter fraud ID with stiff mandatory prison sentences. If you are going to shoot a bear, make sure you kill him.
AllieOop said...
Milwaukee Police and Firefighters unions endorsed Walker, go figure.
6/1/12 1:14 PM
As I understand it was because they were excepted, but being unionized its only a temporary support.
in cases like this one I think winning plaintiffs should pointedly collect -- hard -- from the police officers themselves.
Won't the police be indemnified? Can't they say it was part of their job and point the finger of blame back to the city?
Police Chief Flynn is a Republican and was on Romney's cabinet when Romney was the Governor, go figure.
August legal expert Whoopi Goldberg states Barrett's staffer didn't commit, "A crimey crime."
You must be a lawyer.
Robert Cook? A lawyer? Please.
And thus does Les demonstrate her utter failure to understand reality again, and again and again.
Are you assuming a civil right lawsuit? If so, there is no joint and several liability to assume.
Really?
"Police Chief Flynn is a Republican and was on Romney's cabinet when Romney was the Governor, go figure."
Police Chief Flynn was hired by Tom Barrett.
Won't the police be indemnified?
Probably.
What you could is only sue the police officers only, but then you couldn't invoke Section 1983. And it's got to be true that the union or any entity can pay if it chooses to. Money is, after all, fungible. And you can't bankrupt someone who is getting money from someone else.
Definitely a weakness of my fantasy. It would have to be a case where nobody wants to protect the cops. Unlikely.
"@Robert Cook:
"You must be a lawyer."
Nope...not at all.
If you are assuming an unlawful arrest, illegal use of force, or unlawful seizure or detention, that is a Constitutional violation governed by federal statutes.
So none of those things are prevented under the Wisconsin State Constitution? That would be shocking.
It would have to be a case where nobody wants to protect the cops. Unlikely.
Because a politician who did that would be attacked -- more than likely by Republicans -- as soft on crime.
Thanks again Tosa.
Man, if that's all they've got, there's nothing remotely arrestable about what he did. Maybe Allie or Leslyn could tell me something different, but wasn't he just responding? God.
Such civility on the left.
"@Robert Cook:
"You must be a lawyer."
Nope...not at all.
Good for you!
Madison -- The union could also choose to pay. Or anybody. It would have to be a crime committed by a cop that was so terrible that no one would want to pay, and you would have to have a plaintiff who wants pure justice more than money for what happened to them.
Unadulterated fantasy on my part, really.
Police Chief Flynn is a Republican
Allie, do you have a cite for this?
Robert Cook said...
This is entirely standard policing procedures throughout the land. There is nothing remarkable about this.
The police serve the interests of the powerful, and act largely as security guards for the property owners and their lackeys in government. Brutality is more the order of the day than is "civil" service to the public at large. If you told a cop today he was supposed to be a "peace officer," he would likely take it as an insult and accusation, and thump your ass for your insolence.
Somebody got a speeding ticket recently.
Cops are basically rent gatherers for the state. They have little interest in your safety. They have a huge interest in your wallet.
"Somebody got a speeding ticket recently."
Nope. I don't own a car or have a driver's license.
MPD and MFD would have endorsed any politician who was going to exempt them from collective bargaining reform.
Go figure.
Huge mistake on Walker's part, BTW. He should have included the police and fire unions with the rest of the government unions targeted for reform.
Some of the best news out of Wisconsin in a while:
"...Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year."
Suddenly, free people act freely
Robert Cook said...
"Somebody got a speeding ticket recently."
Nope. I don't own a car or have a driver's license.
Not sixteen yet, huh.
Petunia said...
MPD and MFD would have endorsed any politician who was going to exempt them from collective bargaining reform.
Doesn't that fall under the municipalities reponsibilities?
"I don't own a car or have a driver's license.
"Not sixteen yet, huh."
Heh. No, I live somewhere where I don't need a car, as we have comprehensive public transit.
For those who didn't click through on the voter fraud link: "n February, Mr. Sandvick's unit released a 67-page report on what it called an "illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of (the 2004) election in the state of Wisconsin" -- a swing state whose last two presidential races were decided by less than 12,000 votes.
The report found that between 4,600 and 5,300 more votes were counted in Milwaukee than the number of voters recorded as having cast ballots. Absentee ballots were cast by people living elsewhere; ineligible felons not only voted but worked at the polls; transient college students cast improper votes; and homeless voters possibly voted more than once."
[The effort was coordinated by workers for the Kerry for President 2008 campaign in Milwaukee.]
If a Presidential campaign disenfranchised voters by physically restraining voters from voting, or by imposing a poll tax, or by sending voters disinformation about the appropriate times and places to vote, there would be (has been) universal outrage. Even one person disenfranchised in this way is too many.
But allowing people to vote, and then erasing their votes with an illegal vote for another candidate has the exact same impact, and does not generate any outrage at all in Democratic circles. In fact, our Attorney General regards efforts to reduce this kind of activity as racist. What does that tell you about him, and his opinion of what kinds of people try to disenfranchise others by voting illegally?
Robert Cook said...
"I don't own a car or have a driver's license."
This is getting way too creepy Cookie.
An account of the arrest at the rally
GASP! Subsidized public transit! Socialism!!
It sure makes a lot more sense for 10 million people in 500 sq. miles than for 750,000 people in 5,000 sq miles (Milwaukee to Madison).
Perfect opportunity for Walker to remark that the police "acted stupidly."
I have met people like Robert Cook. They are really strange but don't know it. If you don't drive a car, you are not really an American--unless you are disabled or something.
ken in sc said...
If you don't drive a car, you are not really an American--unless you are disabled or something.
That makes no sense. I used to live in NYC and I can tell you I knew tons of people there that never owned a car much less drove one in their lives. They didn't need to, but I wouldn't call them not really american.
Yeah, Ken, lots of people don't own cars. I didn't own one for over 15 years except for a brief period overseas, when it was necessary. I finally got one, resentfully. My wife does not have a driver's license and points out to me that truly powerful people are driven everywhere they want to go.
The fact is, if you live in any kind of city, you don't need a car. There are trains, buses, taxis, bike lanes, your legs. There is Zipcar. It's easy, and it saves a lot of money.
ken in sc
It is probably going a bit overboard to say that somebody who does not drive is not a real American. We are a big country with a lot of variety among our 350 million people.
It would, however be accurate to say that anybody who lives in a place where driving is not necessary and owning a car is actually inconvenient is statistically very unusual and such a person is likely to be very out of touch with the way that most Americans live their lives.
It would probably also be accurate to say that somebody living in a city that has very good public transportation either does not have children in school, has enough money to send their children to a private school or does not like their children very much.
There is theoretically no reason that bad schools and public transportation should have any relationship but the correspondence between good public transportation and bad public schools seems to approach 1.0.
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