What exactly do we know about the events of July 17, 2014, when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was blown out of the sky over Ukraine, killing 298 people?
Crime
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime
The National Increase in Reported Campus Sexual Assaults
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The latest federal study on crime and safety in schools (at all levels), Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2016, is now available from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), “the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related to education in the United States and other nations.” A portion of the…
Crime
Captured: Joseph Jakubowski
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
This community – and many others – will be able to enjoy Easter weekend without concern over Jakubowski as a continuing threat: “RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. – Joseph Jakubowski was captured early Friday morning in western Richland County, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. The sheriff’s department told WRCO radio in Richland Center they got a…
Crime, Law, Litigation, Misconduct
He Knew
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Raquel Rutledge reports that Eric Haertle knew the medical products he sold were infected: The former co-owner and chief operating officer of a Hartland pharmaceutical company — once among the nation’s largest manufacturers of alcohol wipes — has pleaded guilty to shipping a product he knew was contaminated with dangerous bacterium. Eric Haertle, who owned Triad…
Crime, Putin, Trump
U.S. indicts Russian spies in breach of 500 million Yahoo accounts
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Ellen Nakashima reports on U.S. Justice Department’s charges against agents of the Putin regime – whose leader Trump only recently praised (“I always knew he was very smart!“) – for a vast hacking of American business (Yahoo & realated entities) and consumers: The Justice Department announced Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in…
Crime, Law, Litigation, Walworth County
The Enduring Sadness of Walworth County
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
“ELKHORN—A woman who son was shot and killed by a Walworth County sheriff’s deputy in 2012 has settled her lawsuit against the county and deputy for $1.1 million. Nancy Brown, mother of 22-year-old John Brown, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee in May 2013 alleging Deputy Wayne Blanchard used excessive force when he…
Authoritarianism, Crime, Foreign Affairs, Trump, Tyranny
Someone the President-Elect Admires
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, overseer of a contentious and bloody crackdown on drug dealers and users, boasted on Monday about having personally killed criminal suspects when he was mayor of Davao City. “In Davao, I used to do it personally — just to show to the guys that if I can do it,…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime, Law, University
Attorney General Schimel’s Support for Senate Bill 656
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Late last month, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel joined law enforcement officials at a press conference to announce his support for a bill that would offer amnesty for underage drinkers who report incidents of sexual assault (whether reporting as claimants or bystanders). The bill (Senate Bill 656) would assure that someone could report an…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime
Larry Wilmore of The Nightly Show on Bill Cosby’s Arraignment
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
At the conclusion of his remarks, Wilmore observes that “Even if he doesn’t get convicted, this is still a good thing, because for too long, the women who have accused him of this crime were not being listened to, because they were being silenced by a powerful man and a complicit culture. And, now,…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime, Official Misconduct, University
Chancellor Kopper’s Belated Statement on Another Federal Complaint
by JOHN ADAMS • • 9 Comments
Today, only after publication of an account of a second Title IX complaint against UW-Whitewater from a second sexual assault survivor, Chancellor Kopper finally chose to issue a statement in her own words (assuming that she wrote it). I have published that statement in full, at the bottom of this post. (For the story on…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime, Official Misconduct, University
A Second Sex-Assault Survivor Files Federal Complaint Against UW-Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Raechel Liska, aged 22. Photo from Channel 3000. Link to Ms. Liska’s video interview, available online. Raechel Liska, aged 22, an honors student and Army ROTC candidate at UW-Whitewater, has filed a sexual discrimination action with the U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Division, against our local university. This is the second federal action that…
Crime
The BB Gun Shootings in Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There’s an account from WISC of injuries an adult BB gun shooter inflicted on others in Whitewater on July 4th. I’ve embedded it below. It’s a thorough recounting, and the report offers some of those who suffered personal injury or property damage the opportunity to speak directly.
Personal injury, in particular, can be a hard thing, but there’s nothing hard about forming an opinion on a crime like this: there’s no justification worthy of the term for any part of the alleged accused’s conduct. It’s wholly wrong.
That residents and emergency workers responded quickly is all to the good, and deserves commendation.
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime, Misconduct, University
How UW-Whitewater Treated a Sexual Assault Victim
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
I’ve written before about the handling of sexual assault complaints nationwide and at UW-Whitewater. The more one reads on the matter, the more concerned one becomes, both generally and locally. There’s a new and troubling story about how UW-Whitewater handled an assault victim’s Title IX assault complaint at WISC-TV. In the report, entitled, Graduate speaks…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Crime, Law, Walworth County
What the Victim’s Mother Told Walworth County Judge Carlson
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
It’s both a pity and a disgrace that a fourteen-year-old victim’s mother had to plead with the Hon. James Carlson to sentence to jail the men who assaulted her daughter: ELKHORN—The mother of a 14-year-old girl sexually assaulted by three men in an Elkhorn basement in 2013 pleaded with judges Tuesday to send two of…