MILWAUKEE(MPA) - June 14, 2012, The Journal Sentinel and Milwaukee Chief of Police Edward Flynn are at-odds regarding recent assault crime reports that may have been misreported as minor crimes. The request was May 22, 2012 from Ben Poston, Reporter, Journal Sentinel for 828 incident reports.
The chief and Police Sergeant Michael Jones provided a letter response to Poston, dated June 11, 2012. The letter spoke of the open reports law and cited state statute 19.36 and case law examples as a reason for denial of a report. The MPD/Milwaukee Police Department called the request "overly broad and burdensome".
Chief Flynn asked that the request be narrowed.
If it was not narrowed, a "prepayment" cost assessment would be: Approximately $10,046.40
- Rate of assessment: $44.85 per hour
- Time of ssessment: 224 hours of staff time (about 10 days)
- Cost per page: $.25
On June 13, 2012, a press conference was held.
CLICK for press conference article, click on FULL video.
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Milwaukee Professional Association is particularly interested in "clarity" of the reports, especially since Milwaukee Police Department has a well-documented history in adverse and questionable acts towards African American and other People of Color. Too often they are the citizens/ Milwaukeeans that repeatedly are recipients of "bad judgments" and "mishandling" of this-n-that dealing with law enforcement. Openness of the records, timeliness, reasonable cost of the records and ongoing evaluation for improved law enforcement services that is fair, is WinWin for all.
Because, if we are to foster TRUST in our public safety arm to our city, it is an All Hands on Deck moment - We must ALL see reasonableness, fairness, transparency, best practices, ongoing training were necessary and accountability.
In solution building, it is our desire that the outcome will promote better tools for quality control assessment, built-in training that is not reactionary, better communication and updated state laws that help rather than restrict. Our stakeholders/people's lives, livelihood and quality of life is at stake.
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Milwaukee Common Council Discusses Crime Numbers Audit
View the youtube video of their discussion.
What do you think?
mpapublicpolicyreview@gmail.com
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