It’s been five years since Tony Terrell Robinson was killed by Madison police officer Matt Kenny. Last Friday, community members gathered to hold a memorial for Robinson on the anniversary of his death. The celebration started with music and a fashion show at the Wil Mar Center, and as the sun set, mourners held a […]
Holding the Police Accountable with Amelia Royko Maurer
Today on the show, Allen takes a close look at policing in Madison with Amelia Royko Maurer, safe-policing advocate and co-founder of the independent Community Response Team concerned with Madison-area police practices and their reform. They cover topics like the shooting of Paul Heenan by a Madison police officer in November 2012 and Tony Robinson […]
UWPD Seeks to Create Off-Campus Officer
Many UW students live off campus and, because of this, the UW Police Department had already been working to create an off campus officer position; however, when the Madison Police Department announced it would be eliminating its Langdon community officer position, the UWPD decided they needed to act. Marc Lovicott, the UW Police Department’s Director […]
Roundtable: Uptick in Juvenile Crime
Juvenile crimes were in steady decline in Madison and Dane County for many years until 2017. Since then, we have seen spikes in crimes like property theft and overall youth detention rates. Why this uptick—and what are we doing about it? To give some context for these facts and figures and to discuss possible solutions, […]
MPD Policy & Procedure Check-In
In 2017, the OIR Group (an organization that does independent police oversight and review) researched the Madison Police Department’s policies, practices, procedures, and culture. The resulting report offers 146 recommendations, all of which have been reviewed by the Madison Police Department Policy & Procedure Review Ad Hoc Committee with community input over the past couple […]
Do Madison schools need their own police officers?
That’s the question our reporting interns Peyton Barber and Mario Canacasco set out to investigate. For the past two decades, there have been MPD police officers stationed in each of the major Madison high schools, paid for by the school district. But recently, this deal has come under scrutiny by community members who say that […]
