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Group calls for Milwaukee police chief's firing

About 50 people gathered Saturday to demand the firing of Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn after the in-custody death of Derek Williams. »Read Full Article

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  1. Yea, fire Flynn and let the hell hole neighborhoods get even worse.
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  2. This is bogus, if he wouldn't be out robbing people he would be alive today, nothing to do with Flynn.
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  3. Other group calls for people to get jobs, stop robbing, and murdering people.
  4. Eh,I do not think this is a matter on racism but the cop was negligent.
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  5. There's been at least 300 shootings and 70 murders since this guy died. Out of these victims, many were just going about their day when they were killed by leaches and bottom feeders of society. Yet these "protesters" don't give a damn about them, just the guy arrested for robbing someone.
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    • The shootings and murders are the Police Dept fault also. They ask for more officers in high crime areas and we send a very large portion of the Department to these areas. All that happens then is more complaints about minorities "being harassed." Complaints about too many stops. We will never see a satisfied inner city. God bless this City!
      If you really want to get a good feel about how peope in these high crime neighborhoods feel, lets ask the hard working home owners in these areas if they want more police or more loitering, drug dealing, loud music, unlicensed drivers, lawless youths and gun carrying felons?
      On another note, White guy got robbed by black guy today at North/Humboldt . I plan a march tomorrow in protest of black on white crime.
    • Iguanna, glad you want to legalize pot. Tell Scott Walker it's a textbook example of job killing government regulations. It would also reduce law enforcement costs and defund the drug cartels who get about 60% of their revenue from it. I would never encourage anyone (who was not seriously ill) to use it, but maybe you would.
    • John Casper, I have no idea of what you are talking about so that would make 2 of us.
  6. This is democracy talking and what we stand for under that flag.

    Not sure the concept fits in with overall reform. Its advocating with like-kind to say they made a mistake, give them and toss them out. You can't expect better conditions for prisons and inmates if you too practice that mentality to give them prison for life, beat them, etc.

    It takes thinking through the issues. When Brier left after Lacey what if anything really improved? I was there in the day on the west side of Milwaukee in the times of Brier and the years after he left office. Nothing changed for the better. Getting rid of Flynn is the same road taken with Brier. What happened was the younger officers were trained under Brierism by his officers that stayed on.

    Would leave Flynn in office but split off death investigations into a consolidated shared services with some other management system in place. If you can implement meaningful change on death investigations to get that piece of the puzzle on a better path than you can break it down. This is what should of happened when Brier left and it was proposed. Police commission idea quickly gained favor. A separate death investigation unit made alot of sense to remove the police from investigating their own. Its like lawyer regulation that doesn't work. If lawyers can't self police their own how can police achieve that?

    Separate death investigation idea was too cutting edge at a time conservative thinking reigned to go with a tried and tested police commission idea. This is a different era in a time of change, bigger and bolder reigns.

    Try something new, take a bigger leap and stand for real reform.
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    • I am not sure that a separate investigative entity would be effective in the eyes of the public. There is always someone appointed who knows somebody or voted for someone or contributed to a campaign for someone, or signed a recall for someone etc...if there is an angle to be found - someone from the "other side" will find it.
    • Would agree but then again we have tried the approach that one chief is in charge of police departments in major cities for how long?

      If we are going to save our major cities we have to do more than fire police chiefs. Divested power spreads the risk and failure portals. The gold standard of hand picking a team and the talk point of being held accountable is silly. When it fails all that happens is someone looses their job.

      Under one roof management means when it fails it all fails. To achieve more accountability you need to divest the management so if one link fails the rest keeps going. Redundant systems if you will. Pioneering field of Engineering Psychology, a totally cool science that comes from the day to understanding human relationships to machines, coworkers and work environments.

      My background is manufacturing, accounting, personnel and modernism management. Worked for companies that had the first generation CNC. Broad fields of engineering was apart of that life.

      There is no science being applied here. Its emotion. You folks need to call over to those colleges and find some scholar people.
  7. I totally agree with VVL61. At the very least, Williams is not reproducing.
  8. Where is the outrage over the truancy rate, the H.S. dropout rate, the teenage pregnancy rate, black on black murder rate, reading/math scores,... etc. Wake the heck up people! Btw, I'm a black citizen of Milwaukee; proud but extremely disappointed.
  9. bring in the Expendable's
  10. He should be fired, He hid the real crime statitic to make it look like he was doing a good job. It took his department 10 months to release the videotape of Derek Williams begging for his life! He had an adulterous affair with a married woman. If a Black police chief for Milwaukee did what he did, he would have been fired a loooooonnnnnng time ago. He's useless.
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