Friday, October 5, 2018

Rants on social media last forever


Photo credit:  LinkedIn

This story, of course, is red meat for Daniel

Bice: Mayor Barrett nominee for Fire and Police Commission disparages cops in email.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/4/2018)

I share this story because, while reading it, I was reminded of a series of conversations I had with Oshkosh friends in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  One member of this close-knit group had an older brother who was a member of the Milwaukee Police Department, and he rarely had anything good to say about the department's aggressive approach to policing and his brother's enthusiastic embrace of it.

Related reading and listening:
Project Milwaukee: To Protect And Serve.  (WUWM)
Milwaukee has a fraught history of police-community relations.
What Can We Learn from the History of Milwaukee Policing?  (City Journal, 3/23/2016)

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