On the night of Friday September 11, 2009 a DPS officer threatened to murder several area residents by driving over them in his cruiser. The residents were standing on the sidewalk at the entrance of an alley. When the officer approached he ordered them to leave, which was beyond his authority. He then yelled at the residents. When they still stayed put, he threatened to run over all of them with his cruiser, which would have, in all likelihood, resulted in their deaths. As such, he did in fact threaten to murder them. The officer then contacted his superiors. Two commanding officers arrived, along with 5 other officers in 4 squad cars. The officers then interviewed the residents, and concurred that they had not broken any laws, and were within their legal right to refuse to obey the orders of the DPS officer. Moreover, the residents were within their right to refuse to turn over their identifications to the DPS officer, given that he is not a police officer. The commanding officers then apologized for the violent behavior of the DPS officer, and assured the residents that it would not happen again. Nevertheless, this scenario si horrifying, in that a DPS officer threatened to murder people by driving them over with his car. Hopefully in the future DPS will better screen its officers to make sure that they do not threaten nor attempt to murder anyone else.
I again thank my anonymous sources for providing me with the details of this tragic incident.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Swine Flu knows where you live
That's right fellow warrior watchers, swine flu is now on campus, and is spreading pretty fast. According to the university there is only one confirmed case, a female living in Schroeder, although MU won't disclose that last part. In addition, there are several suspected cases living in Straz, although again the university is not commenting on this. One of these cases reportedly ate in the cafeteria potentially infected everyone who was eating there. In addition according to several anonymous sources, a Straz cafeteria employee was sent home today with flu like symptoms, although again this information is not being discussed, and these sources were told only to say that the individual was not feeling well and were informed that the phrase "swine flu" was not to be said in the cafeteria.
It appears that in light of these recent cases the university is attempting, poorly, to cover up the actual extent of swine flu on campus and in doing so is merely increasing the likelihood that it will spread quite rapidly. Rather than being proactive and public about every case, MU is relying on students to determine whether or not they feel healthy enough to go to class, and if they don't they are to call Student Health Services (SHS) in order to find out if they have symptoms which may be swine flu, or H1N1/novel H1N1 as the university prefers, and then quarantine themselves. It would be much more helpful if the university released a daily chart of where the outbreak is occurring. For example if it were the case that the flu was most prominent at Schroeder, it would make sense for students to avoid that cafeteria, yet without any information students are effectively gambling and hoping that they can avoid contracting a deadly virus, which many epidemiologists fear will be as bad as the Spanish flu of 1918 which killed millions. If the outbreaks continue to worsen and people get sicker and sicker, it will be interesting to see if the university continues to try to keep everything under wraps, or if it owns up to the numbers of ill on campus and tries to intervene before something tragic happens. Let us all hope that MU is smart enough to get proactive, by passing out masks and hand sanitizers and isolating sick students.
I would also like to thank all of my anonymous informants without whom posts like this would not be possible. I owe many thanks to these individuals for their inside information into the workings of the university.
It appears that in light of these recent cases the university is attempting, poorly, to cover up the actual extent of swine flu on campus and in doing so is merely increasing the likelihood that it will spread quite rapidly. Rather than being proactive and public about every case, MU is relying on students to determine whether or not they feel healthy enough to go to class, and if they don't they are to call Student Health Services (SHS) in order to find out if they have symptoms which may be swine flu, or H1N1/novel H1N1 as the university prefers, and then quarantine themselves. It would be much more helpful if the university released a daily chart of where the outbreak is occurring. For example if it were the case that the flu was most prominent at Schroeder, it would make sense for students to avoid that cafeteria, yet without any information students are effectively gambling and hoping that they can avoid contracting a deadly virus, which many epidemiologists fear will be as bad as the Spanish flu of 1918 which killed millions. If the outbreaks continue to worsen and people get sicker and sicker, it will be interesting to see if the university continues to try to keep everything under wraps, or if it owns up to the numbers of ill on campus and tries to intervene before something tragic happens. Let us all hope that MU is smart enough to get proactive, by passing out masks and hand sanitizers and isolating sick students.
I would also like to thank all of my anonymous informants without whom posts like this would not be possible. I owe many thanks to these individuals for their inside information into the workings of the university.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
More Assaults on the Rule of Law
Apparently DPS not only believes in assaulting the rule of law, but is so arrogant, that it actually brags about its actions. Take for example its response to a fight on the corner of 16th and Wisconsin which occurred at 4:22pm on Tuesday September 1. 10 DPS officers responded to the fight, and attempted to intervene. Given that they were not present when the fight began, they of course had no reason to intervene. They were then brazen enough to call the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) and request their aid. Not request that they come and do their jobs, no, they were there to help DPS be cops. Because that completely meshes with Wisconsin State Law. Oh wait, no it does not. DPS has no right to intervene then, and calling MPD to aid it only shows how absolutely arrogant DPS officers have become. They actually think that they are cops.
Continuing on the theme of DPS officers think that they're cops, they have continued to brag about illegally imprisoning two individuals on the night of August 10-11. For the uninformed that is a Class H Felony in Wisconsin, and as much as DPS, and MU, think they operate in their own universe, they are in fact subject to the laws of the state, yet instead of apologizing, they portray themselves as heroes. Just like all the other people that run around detaining other people, oh wait those are usually serial killers or people taking hostages, but not DPS, no they are heroes.
This past week DPS continued to think that it was a branch of the Milwaukee Police Department, on the evening of September 3, a DPS car "aided" MPD officers in purusing a suspect who was guilty of violating an open container law. Which, by the way, is a municipal offense, and is only a ticktable offense. Yet, MPD, which has clearly forgotten its role in upholding the law, asked DPS, a private security contractor and not a police force, for help in catching a kid who was given a ticket. Now if that isn't great police work I don't know what is. Run down a kid to give him a ticket, and break the law by having a private security contractor get involved in the chase, instead of doing something useful, like arresting people who commit felonies.
In a second instance last week, MPD again asked for DPS assistance because of someone urinating in public. The fact that MPD ran after someone for this and needed DPS' help for this, is pathetic on the part of MPD, in that it can't even do its own job. In addition, it is sickening that MPD is calling DPS over and over again to "aid" in detaining people. DPS cannot legally act in this capacity, they are not nor have they ever been police. They are private security contractors, much like Xe and ArmorGuard. In fact it would probably make us all safer if the university replaced DPS with one of those groups, I mean they have tanks, and helicopters, and are experienced in ignoring any form of law and just doing whatever they can to oppress people. So really we have two options right now, either fight back against oppression, or embrace it wholesale and hire mercenaries to "protect" us from "criminals".
Continuing on the theme of DPS officers think that they're cops, they have continued to brag about illegally imprisoning two individuals on the night of August 10-11. For the uninformed that is a Class H Felony in Wisconsin, and as much as DPS, and MU, think they operate in their own universe, they are in fact subject to the laws of the state, yet instead of apologizing, they portray themselves as heroes. Just like all the other people that run around detaining other people, oh wait those are usually serial killers or people taking hostages, but not DPS, no they are heroes.
This past week DPS continued to think that it was a branch of the Milwaukee Police Department, on the evening of September 3, a DPS car "aided" MPD officers in purusing a suspect who was guilty of violating an open container law. Which, by the way, is a municipal offense, and is only a ticktable offense. Yet, MPD, which has clearly forgotten its role in upholding the law, asked DPS, a private security contractor and not a police force, for help in catching a kid who was given a ticket. Now if that isn't great police work I don't know what is. Run down a kid to give him a ticket, and break the law by having a private security contractor get involved in the chase, instead of doing something useful, like arresting people who commit felonies.
In a second instance last week, MPD again asked for DPS assistance because of someone urinating in public. The fact that MPD ran after someone for this and needed DPS' help for this, is pathetic on the part of MPD, in that it can't even do its own job. In addition, it is sickening that MPD is calling DPS over and over again to "aid" in detaining people. DPS cannot legally act in this capacity, they are not nor have they ever been police. They are private security contractors, much like Xe and ArmorGuard. In fact it would probably make us all safer if the university replaced DPS with one of those groups, I mean they have tanks, and helicopters, and are experienced in ignoring any form of law and just doing whatever they can to oppress people. So really we have two options right now, either fight back against oppression, or embrace it wholesale and hire mercenaries to "protect" us from "criminals".
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