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On the article Sheriff David Clarke Puts Holiday Drivers on Alert
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On the article Wauwatosa Man Accused of Supplying Drugs in Overdose Death
Jim Price
1:05 am on Friday, May 24, 2013
ReplyI do not mind at all having the families and friends of both the deceased and the accused commenting – in fact, I welcome it. But everyone will have to keep it clean. You know what I mean. Say what you have to say but lose the foul language, or your comments will be deleted, as a couple have already. Thanks to those who have kept it clean and straightforward. Mr. Bares' death is a tragedy unto itself. Mr. Scott is accused but is innocent unless proved guilty.
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On the article Estabrook Beer Garden Will Be Bigger, Better This Year
Jim Price
10:54 pm on Thursday, May 23, 2013
It wouldn't. The record has been corrected. The Thiensville Village Board, not Milwaukee County, is considering a beer garden in its Village Park.
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On the article Loaded .45, Ammo Stolen in Another Home Burglary
Jim Price
6:18 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Maybe a little semi-sarcastic, Sharpie. As the rest of the sentence suggests, hidden in any way at all is "relatively" better than leaving them out in plain sight.
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On the article UPDATE: Wauwatosa Police Aid in Search for Bank Robbers
Jim Price
9:33 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
Actually, I take part of that back – police have already asked for the public's help (see last paragraph of story). Just not through partial/inadequate descriptions. Note that the police say the robbers' faces were covered.
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On the article UPDATE: Wauwatosa Police Aid in Search for Bank Robbers
Jim Price
9:30 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
Police have now released a description of the getaway car (see updated story). They have not released descriptions of any of the perpetrators. They almost never release individual subject descriptions during the initial search and investigation. Maybe in a couple days, if they have no leads to go on, they might give us photos from the bank video cameras and ask for the public's help.
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On the article At Least 10 Long Guns Stolen in Daytime Home Burglary
Jim Price
7:27 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
Inadequate descriptions for identification. The witness was at some distance, was looking through foliage or from a window, was hurried and distraught, and could give only a couple of vague parameters.
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On the article This Mayfair Arrest Is In the Bag, Out of the Bag
Jim Price
5:45 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
ReplyUpon review, I wish to clarify a careless misstatement I made in this story, since corrected in the text. I originally said the DA didn't believe the state could prove the suspect had stolen the Nook reader and phone. I should have said (as it now reads), the DA did not believe he could prove the suspect "knew the Nook and display phone were stolen."
That is not splitting hairs. Obviously, the two items were stolen – the police proved that. The real question was not even whether the man in custody had stolen them himself but whether he was knowingly in possession of stolen property. That was the charge sought.
Because both items had been stolen long before but those thefts had not been reported and hence not investigated – and because the suspect doggedly stuck to his story that he didn't know they were stolen – the DA was probably right to decline that charge.
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On the article This Mayfair Arrest Is In the Bag, Out of the Bag
Jim Price
5:18 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
Yes, as noted, the probation office finally did put a violation hold on him and he was sent to jail. But what happened after that is unknown. Since he wasn't charged, it's possible he was just released. But it's also possible that just having the BB gun was a probation violation, whether he was charged or not, and he may have gotten some mandatory lockup time. These records are not available to me.
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On the article Wisconsin Memorial Ceremony for Slain Officers Honors Jennifer Sebena
Jim Price
9:34 pm on Friday, May 10, 2013
No Wauwatosa police officer has ever before died in the line of duty.
Jim Price
6:59 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013
County deputies would be out of their jurisdiction staking out taverns, but I can assure you that some police departments do just exactly that. In Wauwatosa, after police starting camping outside Mo's Irish Pub, 10842 Blue Mound Rd., Mo's owner Johnny Vassallo did the right thing and entered into a partnership with Tosa Police and the High-Visibility Multi-Jursidictional OWI Task Force to reduce drunken driving. Mo's informs its customers they are being watched, invites officers in on floor patrols, puts up warning flyers, trains its servers in not over-serving, cuts off customers without designated drivers, calls cabs on request, books hotel rooms for impaired customers (through another partnership with the Hotel and Lodging Association) and in general cooperates fully with law enforcement. Wauwatosa Patch is also proud to be part of this partnership, which includes media advances such as this article as well as giving a high profile to arrests.
As editor of Wauwatosa Patch, I can tell you that it works. I used to see all-too-regular reports of OWI arrests in the immediate vicinity of Mo's. I haven't seen one for months now, since this partnership started. More partnerships like this can reduce drunken driving – not just the arrests but the actual incidence of it occurring. And I have not heard that it has hurt Mo's business.