Browsing: Crime and Justice

Twenty-two states provide for election of the chief justice by the court, and none seem to have faced the divisiveness that Wisconsin has experienced.

Congressman Paul Ryan could not help himself. There he was at a Racine school last week, listening as teachers described a pilot program that helps kids back away from fights and reduces bullying.

Rather than being portrayed as the enemy of low-income blacks, police should be seen instead as the community’s strongest allies against recurring violence.

In January, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. warned the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee of the increasing federalization of local police departments.

To end gun violence in our inner cities, we need to stop focusing on the guns. Guns are only a symptom of a larger and more insidious disease.

Excerpts of a speech by Woodson Center President and founder Robert L. Woodson Sr. at the Wisconsin Center.

Several years ago while sitting at my desk I received a curious phone call from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinelreporter working on a story about convicted felons working as lobbyists in Madison. 

Ed Fallone’s failed Supreme Court challenge will mean continued conservative dominance By RICHARD ESENBERG So what are we to make…

Editor’s note: This essay is adapted from remarks delivered at the annual dinner of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute in…

In April, David Prosser was re-elected to a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court after a campaign in which…

Justice speaks David Prosser has a lot he’d like to get off his chest. Given the ongoing investigations, the Supreme…

As both ideological and deeply personal disputes become increasingly public, the court’s members are issuing fewer opinions than any other Wisconsin Supreme Court in decades

Worried residents meet, take action­—and face pushback from liberals. By David Blaska I live in a lovely neighborhood. We greet…

Vietnam-born alder targets crime, gets blasted from the left. By David Blaska Madison’s infamous liberalism is so doctrinaire that the…

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