UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling — the first woman and youngest person to lead a Big Ten university police force — will retire Aug. 7 after 25 years at the campus.
UW-Madison Police Chief Sue Riseling will retire in August after being on the force for 25 years. Riseling plans to continue working, however, as head of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
Court records show investigators are now focusing on one UW-Madison student in connection with two, separate sex assaults at his campus apartment.
Authorities say two UW-Madison roommates are under investigation for separate sex assaults.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials and police are updating their active shooter tactics in response to the massacre in Orlando over the weekend.
A UW-Madison student was arrested Wednesday for an alleged sexual assault Downtown that was reported early Sunday morning.
Madison Police Department arrested UW-Madison student Nathan J. Friar June 8 for second-degree sexual assault and strangulation of a 21-year-old female.
The University of Wisconsin System is under fire following a series of alleged campus sexual assaults.
Two men who were sought by UW-Madison police after vandalism was discovered at a construction site at the Memorial Union were charged Monday with four misdemeanors each.
Ten ducklings were rescued from a storm drain Monday morning.
According to the UW-Madison Police Department, the ducklings were stuck in a strom drain at Park Street and Observatory Drive.
UW-Madison students marched on campus this week to demand better action by police to prevent sexual assault.
Dozens marched on the UW-Madison campus Tuesday night, to speak out against recent sexual assaults.
They walked from Bascom Hill to Memorial Union, chanting.
Student Claire Van Valkenburg organized the march.
The Dane County district attorney says a University of Wisconsin-Madison student won’t be charged for a series of political graffiti messages spray-painted on campus buildings. Instead, the 21-year-old senior will enter a restorative court in Madison.
A UW-Madison student who could have faced a dozen criminal counts for a series of political graffiti messages spray-painted on campus buildings won’t be charged, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Tuesday.
A competency hearing was ordered for a Madison man after he was charged Tuesday with tagging buildings and electrical boxes in the Downtown and UW-Madison campus areas with symbols representative of white supremacist groups.
Three men have been arrested in connection with a string of graffiti incidents that have taken place over the past few weeks.
(Video) The Mifflin Street Block Party is known for chaotic house parties, binge drinking and drawing large crowds of college students ready to celebrate the end of the school year. Madison police are preparing for the weekend event and offered safety reminders to revelers. Eden Checkol reports.
A Madison man faces charges from Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison police departments in connection with a weeks-long graffiti spree in central Madison, officials said.
One of three men arrested for allegedly spraying white supremacist symbols near the UW-Madison campus will be charged with hate crimes.
I hope all the protesters of the handling of the Denzel McDonald situation take the time to read the April 22 State Journal editorial, “Cop camera brings clarity to controversy.”
Since a violent 2011 block party on Mifflin Street spurred Madison officials to crack down on the unsanctioned event, police costs have declined.
Police are asking for the community’s help to identify two men who they believe damaged property inside the Memorial Union early Tuesday morning.
The UW-Madison Police Department is looking for two men who damaged property inside the Memorial Union early Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
Noted: Riendeau previously worked at UW-Madison, but was fired, and is currently banned from campus.
Records in connection to the revocation of Riendeau’s probation from a past, criminal case, show he sent emails to a state worker evaluating his bid to try to regain his job, that included threats against the university. “I can assure the Commission that as soon as my unemployment runs out, I will be running amok on campus,” Riendeau wrote in July 2013.
Police shared three surveillance video images and asked the public’s help identifying the two men pictured suspected in a property damage incident Tuesday.
Late Monday night at approximately 10:38 p.m., three men vandalized two parking signs at a sorority house on Langdon Street with anti-Semitic symbols, according to an email sent to members of the UW-Madison chapter Kappa Alpha Theta.
This instance comes only a few days after two other cases of anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on university buildings, including the west-end wall of the University Bookstore and Engineering Mall.
The Madison Fire Department says a garbage truck fire that broke out at a parking lot Monday on Lake Street caused $5,000 in damages to the Advanced Disposal truck.
Firefighters respond to a garbage truck fire on Lake Street Monday morning.
Since 1969, students have taken to the streets for the biggest block party of the year. This year, police have a plan to keep everyone safe this year on Mifflin Street.
Madison’s police chief says he wants the annual Mifflin Street Block Party to be a thing of the past.
Firefighters put out a large trash fire after a garbage truck driver dumped trash that had caught fire in the back of his truck in a parking lot in downtown Madison Monday, according to a release.
Despite a recent stretch of toned-down, relatively tame celebrations, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party on Saturday may be a bad one, and increased police presence is planned as alternative programming put on by UW-Madison to divert attention from the spring party shrinks.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said this year’s Mifflin Street Block Party will likely see an increase in police presence, coinciding with a scaled back music festival sponsored by the Wisconsin Union. Koval said the police department will continue efforts to downsize and eventually eliminate the event, saying the unsanctioned block party has “all the earmarks of a very real public safety concern.”
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is worried that this year’s Mifflin Street block party may be a bad one.
An investigation into a reported sexual assault near the Madison’s Memorial Union doesn’t support the victim’s claim, police said.
Investigators looking into the reported April 8 incident used 44 minutes of surveillance video to track the alleged victim’s movement from a Downtown bar to a location where she was found by police and found no evidence an assault took place, the department said Friday.
University of Wisconsin students, staff and faculty are holding a walkout protest Thursday in reaction to recent hate crimes on campus and the controversial arrest of a student.
Kaleem Caire wrote an open letter with his wife, Lisa Peyton-Caire, both of whom are alumni of UW-Madison; Caire is the former head of the Urban League of Greater Madison. They said they’ve watched with growing concern the response of campus leaders to racially charged incidents and believe the incidents should be handled much differently.
UW-Madison police issued two alerts Wednesday night about 20 minutes apart, one for an assault and the other for a fight, with the two incidents not related to each other.
Hundreds of University of Wisconsin-Madison students marched through campus Thursday, chanting “education, not incarceration,” to protest the arrest of a student for his alleged role in spraypainting graffiti art around campus.
University Wisconsin Madison Police sent out a crime alert warning people to avoid Memorial Union in response to two reports of a man grabbing women on campus.
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are asking for the resignation of officers after a student was pulled out of class to be arrested for vandalism.
University of Wisconsin students were warned to avoid part of the campus in Madison after reports that a man with a knife grabbed two women, who were able to flee unharmed.
UW-Madison campus police are asking for the public’s help to find a man they say grabbed two women while carrying a knife.
MADISON — There was a search on the University of Wisconsin campus Wednesday night, April 20th for a man who had a knife and grabbed two women, according to tweets from the University of Wisconsin police.
School of Journalism and Mass Communication Director Hemant Shah introduced Riseling, who was joined by UWPD Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott and Assistant Dean of Students Kipp Cox. Riseling spent about 15 minutes talking about the recent campus and national climate before discussing the incident.
About two dozen activists, students and professors met in Vilas Hall Tuesday to listen to University of Wisconsin Police Department Chief Susan Riseling discuss how UWPD is working to address the campus’ racial climate.
Stories of racist incidents on campus have been shared using the Twitter hashtag #TheRealUW for much of the past month … #TheRealUW has allowed students of color to vent their anger and frustration about incidents of racism on campus. It has been exhausting to read and draining to live, they said. #TheRealUW has pushed race incidents into the public sphere, past the bounds of confidentiality or denial that typically protect targets and transgressors alike. Nobody now can claim that they have not heard the stories.
Native American students on the UW-Madison campus say a public apology and a letter sent to the entire campus isn’t enough after last month’s heckling at a tribal ceremony.
Chief Susan Riseling of the UW-Madison Police Department issued an apology Friday after officers went into a classroom to arrest a suspect in a rash of graffiti around campus.
A former UW Hospital nurse received five years probation Friday on felony charges of diverting drugs from hospital patients.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank says she was upset after she heard that UW police officers entered a classroom to find a suspect in a rash of graffiti cases on campus.
(Video) The University of Wisconsin-Madison police chief apologized Friday to students and a professor after two of her officers arrested a student on vandalism charges after removing him from a class.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison police chief apologized Friday to students and a professor after two of her officers arrested a student on vandalism charges after removing him from a class.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chief of police issued a formal apology Friday because an officer entered a classroom after a class had started Thursday, and asked a black student to step outside for questioning about 11 anti-white supremacy graffiti statements that popped up across campus in recent months.
A wave of criticism from UW-Madison students and professors prompted an apology from the campus’ police chief Friday afternoon for the way an officer disrupted a class to make contact with a student suspected in a string of anti-racist graffiti.
More than 520 faculty and staff members and graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have signed an open letter that says the university police department went “well beyond the call of duty” on Thursday afternoon when officers entered a campus auditorium during an Afro-American-studies class and arrested a senior, Denzel J. McDonald, on 11 counts of graffiti. In the letter, the signers said they would “refuse to be silent” and they called for an end of “anti-black racism on campus.”
The arrest of an African-American student on the UW-Madison campus Thursday has prompted a swift and damning response from university faculty, staff and students.
Prompting widespread anger from faculty and students, University of Wisconsin at Madison police on Thursday pulled a black student from class and arrested him for allegedly spray-painting anti-racist messages across campus.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief issued an apology on Friday after campus officers interrupted a class to arrest a student earlier this week.
