While this year’s Mifflin Street block party was smaller and safer than last year’s according to officials – it drew about 20,000 people compared to 25,000 last year – the number of tickets passed out April 30 significantly exceeded totals from a year earlier.
In the week since the annual party, Madison police passed out 191 citations to 36 people carrying fines of more than $85,000. And the day of the party, police arrested 225 partiers on a total of 317 charges, most of them city ordinance violations such as underage drinking and having open intoxicants.