Quoted: “Wisconsin has the most roundabouts of any state on its state highway system,” said Andrea Bill, a traffic safety engineer and researcher at the University of Wisconsin’s Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory.
According to a letter sent to students, faculty and staff in the Wisconsin School of Business, the university was alerted of the graffiti at the entrance at University Avenue and Park Street on Thursday.
It was on a column at the entrance of University Avenue and Park Street.
“The Wisconsin School of Business and University of Wisconsin–Madison condemn the use of this hateful symbol. We value a diverse community where all members are able to participate fully as students and employees. This includes feeling safe, welcomed, valued, and supported,” according to a release.
“Speaking as a female who walks this street many times a day, I think it’s terrifying and very sad and disappointing,” Clarissa Keller, UW-Madison Graduate said.
Investigators say the assault happened shortly after 7 a.m. near the Fluno Center, in the 600 block of University Ave. Wade allegedly pushed the woman into a nearby grassy area where the attack occurred. Several minutes into the assault, according to police, a passerby spotted what was happening and called police.
According to an incident report, officers responded around 7:00 a.m. to the 600 Block of University Avenue.
Officers said they saw the suspect and the victim in the area and the suspect was taken into custody with help from a K-9 unit.
UWPD Director of Communications Marc Lovicott said while UWPD wouldn’t support the disbandment of their police force, they are open to discussion and on how they can improve. UWPD released a resource with answers to questions from the community and an action plan for change based on community feedback.
Noted: I read this past week an article in the New York University Review of Law and Social Change by McKenna Kohlenberg, a Milwaukee area native who is in the home stretch of getting both her law degree and a master’s degree in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
It uses Madison as a case study in what Kohlenberg calls the “illiteracy-to-incarceration pipeline.” She cites research that 70% of adults who are incarcerated and 85% of juveniles who have been involved with the juvenile justice system are functionally illiterate.
“Literacy strongly correlates with myriad social and economic outcomes, and children who are not proficient by the fourth grade are much more likely than their proficient peers to face a series of accumulating negative consequences,” Kohlenberg writes.
Noted: Mensah worked for less than two years at both the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department before he was hired by Wauwatosa police in January 2015.
Mensah was the subject of one citizen complaint while on the UW-Madison police force, but his supervisors determined he had acted appropriately. A student said Mensah unnecessarily drew his Taser when officers responded to break up fights at a fraternity’s dance party, records show. Mensah did not fire the Taser.
The complaint was not upheld after other officers and witnesses described the chaotic scene and the student who filed the complaint did not return voice messages. The phone number eventually was disconnected.
Max Prestigiacomo, a campus-area alder and 18-year-old UW student, conceded that the concept is “pretty vague,” but he’s fully on board. He vows to vote against any increase in police funding, and will actively work to “demilitarize” the police department.
UW-Madison students, including some indoors behind closed windows, endured symptoms of tear gas exposure and witnessed destruction as demonstrators took to State Street last Saturday to protest the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis on the previous Monday.
Noted: Last spring, Milwaukee teenagers Dana Sharqawi and Sumaya Abdi organized protests after mass shootings at mosques in New Zealand.
On Wednesday, they brought people together again at the Islamic Society of Milwaukee — this time to remember George Floyd and to protest police violence. They said they were guided by their Muslim faith.
“Our religion tells us that if one part of your body’s in pain, then the whole body’s in pain,” said Abdi, now 19 and a student at UW-Madison. “So if our black brothers and sisters are in pain, we’re in pain, too.”
According to officers, Juan Cardenas was driving down the 500 block of State Street to the 700 block just after 10 p.m. when he crashed into the wall of Bascom Hill.
Madison police say two people trying to stop property damage and looting on State Street suffered significant injuries after being beaten by a group of people.
Protests resumed across Wisconsin for a third straight day Monday, with marchers stopping traffic in downtown Madison after a night of violence in the capital city that resulted in 15 arrests, more damages to businesses and the spraying of tear gas by police.
Other law enforcement around the state have condemned the actions of officers involved in Floyd’s death, including University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman, president of the Dane County Chiefs of Police Association. The Wisconsin State Journal reported that Roman said the action or inaction by officers was unjustifiable.
After 2 a.m. Sunday, University of Wisconsin-Madison police tweeted the situation on State Street had “stabilized,” but said a significant law enforcement presence remained and encouraged people to avoid the area.
For the second day, a Madison protest against police violence against black people led to tense confrontations between activists and officers downtown. After a lengthy march, protesters engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with authorities that stretched past midnight.
Noted: The problems were concentrated along State Street, the normally thriving pedestrian avenue that connects the state Capitol to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Protesters broke out the windows of Urban Outfitters, an art museum’s gift shop, Ragstock, AT&T and other stores.
For the second time in as many days, clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators erupted as protests over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody earlier this week wound down.
The town hall included UW Police Chief Kristen Roman, Fitchburg Police Chief Chad Brecklin, Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, Madison Police Chief Victor Wahl, Sun Prairie Police Chief Michael Steffes, Middleton Police Chief Troy Hellenbrand and Dane County mother Jaquelyn Hunt.
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman wrote that the officers’ actions in Minneapolis were “heinous and unacceptable.”
“Regardless of further information that may be discovered in this case, nothing can justify the actions or inactions of these officers,” Kristen Roman wrote in a statement released Thursday morning. “If someone calls for help, it is our duty to help.”
UW-Madison Police Chief Kristin Roman said ensuring diverse officers have a chance to succeed is also crucial. “Once you get diverse candidates within an organization, you need a mechanism and processes and structures in place to support that diversity,” Roman said.
UW Police Chief Roman said the Law Enforcement and Leaders of Color Collaboration have done great work to address trust gaps in Dane County in the aftermath of the 2014 Ferguson Unrest.
Ahead of the town hall meeting, organized by the online news site Madison365 and the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County, UW-Madison Police Chief Kristen Roman, president of the Dane County Chiefs of Police Association, called the death of George Floyd heinous and unacceptable. “Nothing can justify the actions or inactions of these officers,” Roman said of the officer who knelt on the back of Floyd’s neck for several minutes and three other officers who failed to intervene or render aid.
An increasing number of anti-Asian incidents such as racist graffiti have appeared on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, as Kelly Meyerhofer detailed for the Wisconsin State Journal. This included graffiti that said “It’s from China #CHINESEVIRUS.” Yes, people are including hashtags on racist graffiti these days.
Two 19-year-old men were arrested for allegedly tagging UW-Madison buildings with graffiti a total of 21 different times, university police said on Friday.
According to police, the first tags appeared in December 2019 and more followed on various campus buildings and facilities. The graffiti didn’t appear to target any specific groups or identities.
UWPD still looking for potential third suspect for 21 graffiti incidents.
UW-Madison Police say they have finally caught two young men who confessed to 21 separate graffiti taggings made across campus over the last six months.
A 37-year-old Footville man is being called a ‘serial burglar’ after being linked to more than 20 burglaries, including the theft of musical instruments over Thanksgiving weekend at the University of Wisconsin.
With warmer weather drawing a growing number of people to outdoor gathering spots, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has adopted a new order to ensure public safety through physical distancing and related public health measures as campus prepares to reopen.
The University of Wisconsin has erected temporary fencing to close off the Memorial Union Terrace and adjacent lakefront areas, including the piers, as hundreds of people have gathered in recent days in defiance of a county-wide order prohibiting large groups.
New order to halt spread, ensure social distancing on campus.
Meanwhile, UW-Madison on Wednesday issued an order that will limit access to a number of popular gathering spots on campus just as the warmer weather starts to draw people outside after two months of safer-at-home restrictions.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has adopted a new order ahead of the campus’ reopening that enforces physical distancing and other public health measures.
UW-Madison has issued a new order that will limit access to popular places on campus. It’s part of an effort to keep people safe during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Man described as white, in 30s, with heavy build.
New rules narrow definition of harassment, include schools in legal process.
Madison has issued 57 warning letters and six citations in a little under a month for alleged violations of the governor’s “safer at home” order to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, including for several parties near the UW-Madison campus and to people “cruising” or racing the streets in souped-up cars.
UW-Madison students appeared on Saturday to have listened to warnings not to attend the Mifflin Street Block Party for the sake of social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, police said.
As expected, Mifflin Street in Madison was empty after the annual block party there was canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.
The virtual #StayHome Party 2020 will take place April 25 from 8 a.m.- 6 p.m.
MPD will issue citations to non-residents, report UW students to Dean of Students.
“While MPD has historically taken a fairly tolerant view of the Mifflin Street Block Party, this year is different,” MPD Chief Vic Wahl said referring to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Basically the whole campus comes down and has a good time.” Mifflin Street resident and UW-Madison Junior Chris Gilbertson said. “I think that the precautions that they’re taking are unfortunate, but it’s necessary.”
The Madison Police Department has a short message to UW-Madison students mulling whether to attend the Mifflin Street Block Party slated for Saturday: Don’t.
As ABC News report, a Wisconsin judge has determined there is enough evidence to proceed with charges against Khari Sanford and Ali’Jah Larrue, both 18, for the shooting deaths of Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robert Carre, who were found with gunshot wounds to the head in an arboretum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 31. Carre was pronounced dead at the scene, and Potter survived for about an hour at a hospital before she too died.
Khari Sanford and Ali’jah Larrue, both 18, are accused of murdering university doctor Beth Potter, 52, and her husband, Robin Carre, 57, who were both found shot in the back of the head.
Dane County prosecutors believe the deaths of a physician and her husband may have been the result of a conflict with their daughter’s boyfriend brought on by a disagreement over social distancing.
Potter, a doctor at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, had a higher risk of infection due to medications she was taking, the complaint said
Two Wisconsin teens were formally charged Wednesday for their alleged roles in killing a University of Wisconsin professor Dr. Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre.
Beth Potter, a University of Wisconsin physician and associate professor Robin Carre, an independent education consultant, were found murdered in near the Wisconsin Arboretum. Their bodies were found lying in a ditch on March 31. According to the police, both were shot in their head and on their backs.
Police would not comment on Sanford’s relationship with Mimi. ’All we can say at the minute is that he had a connection to the family,’ University of Wisconsin Police spokesman Marc Lovicott told DailyMail.com.
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the double homicide of a University of Wisconsin doctor and her husband.
Acriminal complaint filed Tuesday in the murder of a UW Health physician and her husband alleges that the boyfriend of the couple’s daughter shot both of them in the head and left them for dead in the UW Arboretum the night of March 30.
University of Wisconsin-Madison police investigators were working Thursday to determine why a respected physician and her husband were targeted and killed.
