Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said he wants to examine whether Madison police are taking people to the county?s detox facility who are not incapacitated by alcohol, though they may be intoxicated. But Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said that?s not the case and that doing so would violate not only state law and department policy, but people?s civil rights. “It would be a false arrest,” Wray said. Parisi said people from Madison take up a disproportionate amount of detox beds, which Wray attributes to the city being an urban center with a university and concentration of nightlife Downtown.
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