Milwaukee County Sheriff Clarke: Public Safety By Press Release

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

In the Wisconsin Conservative Digest, Bob Dohnal writes:

Finally someone has a plan...Without a plan, Milwaukee could become another Detroit, abandoned by the citizens out-state, losing population — and a haven for drug dealers, criminals and every bad thing that can happen in an unregulated society...

Now, sheriff David Clarke, Conservative Democrat, has come up with a plan to at least keep the thugs and hoodlums out of the parks and lakeshore.. .

Clarke wants to use the deputies from the highway patrol to patrol the parks instead. The State Patrol would cover the freeways till winter comes, and the sheriff's department would then take back the flame. Doyle's first reaction, "course we could do that, but then Clarke would have to give back the $3 million that we gave him to patrol the freeways, thereby annulling Clarke's plans. That's leadership?

No, that's administrative and budgetary responsibility.  What Clarke wanted Doyle to do is transfer our Wisconsin taxpayer-supported resources (The State Patrol) to Milwaukee County to do a job state taxpayers have already subsidized. 

Clarke didn't come up with a plan; he came up with a press release. Donhal and his cronies probably wrote it.

There is not one city in the United States where the tide of violence and street crime was turned back by brute force and more police. None. Nada. Zippo.  Zero. Zilch.

More officers help, and do make a difference when they are part of a plan, a real plan that disarms the culture of violence.

• The officer must be trained in community policing.
• For law enforcement to work, the neighborhood must support the police.  If they don't, that needs to be fixed.
• There must be an attack on the rot that infests the neighborhood. Milwaukee needs:
  • Summer programs and after school program for kids.
  • Job training and development.
  • Access to health and child care.
  • Voluntary programs in raising children and maintaining a household.
  • Transportation.
  • Money for all of the above.

A word about blaming the parents: it may make some people feel better, but it solves nothing, especially if the parents have the same problems as the kids. 

If it makes you feel better, blame the parents.  Feel better?  Is Milwaukee safer now?

Comments

[antpoppa]

“Hey, Ma! Have you seen where I put my goon squads? “
Events are getting complicated with nuance and layers of truth and things just aren’t being solved with jack-booted police at home or internationally with cruise missiles, death squads, and propagandas. The young will be taking to the streets with the next heat spell.
With no jobs, sick family members, and multiple generations of hopelessness tied to the recent past and even less hope for the future. Law enforcement and the order of the present society will attempt new threats other than incarceration against what will be a league of Street Soldiers. We live in interesting times.

[Phil Errup]

"There is not one city in the United States where the tide of violence and street crime was turned back by brute force and more police. None. Nada. Zippo. Zero. Zilch." Did you make up this comment, or do you have actual facts regarding ALL cities that 1. Turned back a tide of violence and 2. Did not use "brute force" (defined as more police officers)?

As for your worthless "Plan":
"Summer programs and after school program for kids." Are you saying that the majority of crime in Milwaukee is committed by kids? If so, how about parental responsibility? If they're not perpetrated by kids, your programs are worthless.

"Job training and development." It's called school and parents. I thought "High Standards Start Here" at MPS.

"Access to health and child care." I agree that these are important (although the best child care is provided by parents directly), but they have nothing to do with street crime.

"Voluntary programs in raising children and maintaining a household." I am practically speechless with this one. How about programs teaching human beings how to eat and breathe?

"Transportation." Let's see, we have legs, bicycles, buses, cars, trains, boats, and airplanes. Are you suggesting transporters?

"Money for all of the above." Right. We don't pay enough in taxes right now. What are we getting for all of the money we currently give to the various level of governments?

Here's my plan: Don't commit crimes. If you do, you go to prison. It worked for me, I am not a believer in the bigoted view of low expectations.