Politics - April 3, 2009
Operation Impact will return with cameras, patrols
Private efforts to pay for more street surveillance on the near South Side will be back for another year, says Ald. Bob Donovan. It's called "Operation Impact" and it uses cameras and increased foot patrols to saturate certain high-crime areas. The 2009 version will expand its scope both geographically and financially. Donovan said the program, which raised $176,000 last year, hopes to net $250,000 in 2009 in order to facilitate an expansion east of South 16th Street and west into the Jackson Park neighborhood.
Tags: operation impact, surveillance cameras, bob donovan, lee holloway, scott walker, gerard randall

Politics - July 1, 2008
Milwaukee ranks on liberty, health, risk, vice
In its upcoming August edition (print and online), Reason looks at how the 35 most-populous cities in the United States balance individual freedom with government paternalism. How does Milwaukee rank? See it now before the results are released.
Tags: Reason, personal freedom, vice, smoking ban, taxes, free market, Radley Balko, bans, surveillance cameras

Politics - March 28, 2008
Smile, Milwaukee: You may be on hidden camera
The city approved spending $110,000 to put cameras at three bus stops on the South Side. The cameras, somehow, are expected to deter youth violence at the stops.
Tags: ald. jim bohl, rant langley, pedro colon, uw-milwaukee college republicans, rebecca dallet, jeffrey norman, robert puente, milwaukee county transit system, surveillance cameras

Politics - Nov. 2, 2007
Surveying the debate on surveillance cameras
Some aldermen are upset over the way Mayor Tom Barrett funded and implemented nearly two dozen surveillance cameras designed for crime prevention.
Tags: tom barrett, jim bohl, mike d'amato, surveillance cameras, jonathan cermele, laurie egert, grant langley, chaser's pub, camelot show lounge, tap whatever

Politics - June 20, 2007
Tax support doesn't lead to tax payments
If a private school gets taxpayer funds to teach low-income kids, does that mean it still has to pay taxes?
Tags: clara mohammed school, Ralph Lisowski, surveillance cameras