
Multi-Million-Dollar Fund Recipient UW Population Health Institute’s In Solidarity Podcast Now Pushes Reparations Read More UW Diverts Public Health Endowment Funds to Political Causes Again
Multi-Million-Dollar Fund Recipient UW Population Health Institute’s In Solidarity Podcast Now Pushes Reparations Read More UW Diverts Public Health Endowment Funds to Political Causes Again
Milwaukee County has been using data-driven decision making for years to lower crime rates and jail time. Too bad the vendor, Justice Point, struggles to provide even the most basic data about its work. Meanwhile, FBI data shows crime has skyrocketed since the county started on this path. Read More Milwaukee Courts’ Data-Driven Debacle
By M.D. Kittle – Republicans on the Legislature’s budget-writing committee want to correct an Evers’ administration Corrections compensation plan that provides temporary $5-per-hour raises at some but not all state prisons. Read More Republican Budget Writers Blast Evers’ Prison Guard Pay Raise Plan As ‘Bad Human Resource Practice’
A key talking point of Gov. Tony Evers’ “first step” proposal to legalize medical and recreational marijuana went up in smoke last week. In rolling out his wide-ranging initiative, the governor and fellow Democrats declared “drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85% of inmate populations.” The claim is patently false – the real stat is 11%. And as MacIver News first reported, the Evers’ administration quietly scrubbed the bad stat from the original press release. Read More MacIver News Minute: Gov. Evers’ False Drug-Crime Statistic Goes Up In Smoke
By M.D. Kittle – In a press release and on his official Twitter account Evers declared that “drug-related offenses make up as much as 75-85% of inmate populations.” The claim is patently false. Team Evers has quietly scrubbed the stat. Read More Up In Smoke: Evers’ Claim About Pot And Prison Quietly Disappears