MILWAUKEE COPS SCORE ANOTHER WIN!

MILWAUKEE COPS SCORE ANOTHER WIN! (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Do Milwaukee residents really know what kind of police department they have, people of color do, and now lots of whites do as well.  Milwaukee law enforcement just can't seem to get it right, first it was nude dancing by cops at a summer picnic, then it was Bambi, and now the Riverwest attacks. People here in Wisconsin and many places throughout the country seem to be giving law enforcement a pass on the quality of their work.

There are basically 3 kinds of people that live in the United States when it comes to law enforcement and those hired to uphold the laws of the land. Those that respect the law, those that fear the law and those who have no respect for the law what-so-ever. I guess you could say that there is a 4th. type of person, those that manipulate the law for their own benefit, but I believe that there are so few of them, that they can't be categorized in with the top 3.

The latest "gaff" by the Milwaukee Cops was a seeming inability to control a rampaging riotous group of as many as 60 "young" people, who beat and robbed a smaller group who where watching the fireworks from Kilbourn Reservoir Park on Sunday night.

A women who was among the victims of beaten people said that "police told us to leave and started kicking us out of the park." The women also said that the cops "made me feel like I was at fault for enjoying a holiday weekend at a public park." I feel that readers can disregard her feelings of "being at fault for enjoying the holiday," "they didn't care."

Police Chief Edward Flynn was left, Wednesday evening at a meeting,  to apologize, and to squirm in front of about 200 concerned citizens. Flynn told "any witnesses to speak to police after the meeting, that did not speak publicly."  I wonder if Chief Flynn  knows how silly that statement makes him look?

Apparently only 2 statements were taken at the time of the disturbance, from 2 people that required medical attention. Many people knew that something was wrong, had witnessed an altercation, yet not one name or address was taken by the cops at the scene.

Here's something that really cracks me up, according to Chief Flynn, "the police departments primary mission that night was to ensure the safe departure from the lakefront of a crowd of about 200,000 people who had gathered for the fireworks display." So if a guy with a machine gun starts shooting people, the cops...."duck like everybody else." I think if I was Milwaukee's "top cop," I wouldn't be making stupid statements like that."

Not being from Milwaukee, I know nothing about Chief Flynn, so, through the magic of the Internet, I took a look at "Eddy." Not bad Ed, not bad at all, the current police chief of Milwaukee has a pretty dam good resume, born 1948, been in police work his entire working life, first in New Jersey, chief of police Braintree, Massachusetts, chief of Arlington County, Virginia police, was responsible for leading the departments response during the September 11, 2001 attack at the Pentagon and the 2002 Beltway sniper shootings.

In 2003 Flynn returned to Massachusetts and was appointed by then Governor Mitt Romney, Secretary of the state Executive Office of Public Safety, the parent agency of the State Police, Department of Correction, the National Guard, Department of Fire Service, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Parole Board, and the Emergency Management Agency. To say the least, "Flynn ain't no hay seed."

So why the screw-up on the savage attacks at the fireworks, maybe "Eddy" has been drinking to much water from Lake Michigan, I don't know, and frankly, I don't care. When the primary objective of a police force, during any sort of celebration involving 200,000, alcohol, drugs and the posturing attitude of young people, isn't the safe departure of those people, then the mission would be wrong.

However, and I'm just "spit balling here," the safe departure would also be to break up any and all altercations that were observed or reported, or any unsafe situations that might be encountered. Call me crazy, but isn't that what cops do, diffuse situations, to make sure that people "move along" in an orderly fashion. Isn't that crowd control, wasn't that the Milwaukee PD's objective, wasn't that the mission as stated.

The Milwaukee Police department has a multitude of black eyes, don't they have a public relations department, or officer? 3 cops were accused of sexual "misbehaven" a couple months ago, there have been a bunch of brutality allegations against the cops, shootings, killings and racial profiling by the boot-load.  How much does it take before somebody somewhere gets the picture that Milwaukee has a problem with it's "cop-shop."

Some of the parents of the "perps" have turned in their own kids, "great," but that doesn't let the Police Department off the hook, and it definitely doesn't give Chief Flynn  a pass. Come on you people, do your jobs, it's not all that hard, it's a black and white thing. You have some bad decision makers on board, you have some "punk, ass breakers" for cops, get ride of them.

The people of Milwaukee deserve the best "bang" for their buck, when the Chief of Police says that "we were wrong," it's different then when I say I'm wrong, "like when I make a mistake it involves my pooch, not other people welfare." Chief Flynn, "Eddy" you don't get to make mistakes.....to much is at stake.