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Successful community policing is built on positive relationships between law-enforcement officials and the public. So the results of a recent ACLU of Wisconsin survey about attitudes among Milwaukeeans toward the police are concerning.

Former Milwaukee police officer Christopher Manney will not face charges in the April shooting death of Dontre Hamilton, an African American man. The decision triggered another round of protests from people who want to see Manney charged—after more than 70 protesters were arrested Friday for blocking traffic on the interstate in downtown... http://www.wpr.org/listen/692481

ACLU of Wisconsin Executive Director, Chris Ahmuty, appeared on CNN's NEW DAY which aired December 23, 2014 - 06:00   ET

Milwaukee and the nation are still divided now that District Attorney John Chisholm has decided not to issue criminal charges against Milwaukee police officer Christopher Manney, a white officer who shot and killed an African-American man, Dontre Hamilton, on April 30, 2014 in Red Arrow Park.  

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Attorneys who filed a lawsuit seeking legal recognition of hundreds of same-sex marriages performed in June in Wisconsin have dismissed their lawsuit after the state said the marriages would be recognized.

By Angela Trudell-Vasquez

By Nico Savidge | Wisconsin State Journal  

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students held signs, chanted and fell to the ground Tuesday to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, officer who killed a black 18-year-old. Organized by student groups and Milwaukee County Supervisor David Bowen, they started by standing silently with signs like, "We are Michael Brown," who was killed in Missouri. They then chanted, "Hands up! Don't shoot," a refrain that has b

This is the enduring image of Scott Panetti, a severely mentally ill man on death row in Texas: a paranoid schizophrenic wearing a TV-Western cowboy costume; on trial for his life; insisting on defending himself without counsel; attempting to subpoena the Pope, John F. Kennedy, and Jesus Christ; and raising an insanity defense. At one point, he cross-examined his own alter-ego, Sarge, answering his own questions on-stand, in a different voice.