City officials are really struggling to come up with crowd control ideas for State Street during the annual Halloween celebration.
The Halloween festivities have gotten out of control in recent years, and there is no question that city and University of Wisconsin officials need to do a lot more strategizing to determine the best way to manage 75,000 people and avoid disturbances. But, so far, the strategizing has a seat-of-the-pants quality that fails to inspire confidence.
….What’s disturbing is that, at this late date, officials seem to be grabbing for straws rather than advancing a coherent plan.