Foxes Watching The Henhouse

Good to see that the powerful conservatives of the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission are presently destabilizing the department they claim is beyond reproach and that they love so much.

Milwaukee Police Chief Edward A. Flynn blasted the two-part search process for a new police chief, calling it a “cockamamie approach” that could disrupt the order and stability of the police department, in an exclusive interview with Urban Milwaukee. 

Flynn said he had never heard of doing a search for an interim chief “like you’re selecting a permanent chief,” followed by a second search for the more permanent leader. 

The Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission (FPC) has been conducting a search for interim chief for which 10 candidates applied and three finalists were chosen today: Inspector Michael Brunson, Assistant Chief James Harpole and Capt. Alfonso Morales. 

“They are pitting senior command staff against each other and basically destabilizing the department while everybody in the department is trying to back the person they think will win,” Flynn says. And that process could be repeated when the search for a permanent chief occurs.

Sunday Reading

Monopoly Rents And Corporate Taxation
Basically Every Problem In The US Economy Is Because Companies Have Too Much Power
The Hit Job On Chief Flynn
UW's Noah Williams Isn't Just A RW Hack. He's A Koch Addict
Harvey Shows Anti-Government Crowd's Utter Hypocrisy
Tax On Hybrids And Electric Vehicles Is Poor Economic Policy
David Brooks Gets Story On Wage Growth And Productivity Completely Wrong
How Local Housing Regulations Smother The US Economy
The Voting Commission Is A Fraud Itself
Why American Workers Pay Twice As Much In Taxes As Wealthy Investors
Houston's Flooding Shows What Happens When You Ignore Science And Let Developers Run Rampant
Why America Still Hasn't Learned The Lessons Of Katrina
Exempting Suburbia
Have Smartphones Destroyed A Generation?

Despicable Sheriff

Should Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke continually be using the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Facebook page to disparage the City and the Mayor of Milwaukee? Was that page created for Clarke to settle personal vendettas?

Clarke just used the murder of a City of Milwaukee worker as a springboard for his right-wing talking-points and criticism of Milwaukee, the Mayor, the police and the media.

Again, Clarke is using anything and everything - even a tragic event like this - for political gain. What a low-life.