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…
Misconduct
Misconduct, Politics
The Act Utilitarians
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The worst of officials, even in a fair society, look like a parody of utilitarians: as though they were the crudest act utilitarians, justifying any action merely by whether it produces a presumed, aggregate benefit of happiness. (Motivated only consideration of aggregate human enjoyment, for example, a perverse society of dog-haters might commit acts of…
Crime, District Attorney, Law, Misconduct, Sheriff, Walworth County
Seventeen Questions: Injustice in Walworth County Wrongly Sends a Fourteen-Year-Old to Jail
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Yesterday, I posted about an appellate court decision that reversed a juvenile’s conviction and remanded the case for a new trial. See, Injustice in Walworth County Wrongly Sends a Fourteen-Year-Old to Jail. Today I’ll post several questions concerning the decision and two published accounts about of it. The appellate decision (“Appellate Decision”) is online at…
Crime, Law, Misconduct, Official Misconduct
Injustice in Walworth County Wrongly Sends a Fourteen-Year-Old to Jail
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
On February 11, 2015, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District II, reversed an order of the Walworth County Circuit Court, and ordered a new trial for a minor child, identified as Charles C.S. Jr., aged fourteen at the time of his conviction. See, State v. Charles C. S., Jr., No. 2014AP1045, unpublished (Wis. Ct. App.…
Corporate Welfare, Government Spending, Misconduct, State Government
The Truth About the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There are those times when small-government conservatives, Democrats, and libertarians agree. Acknowledging the misconduct, failures, and cronyism of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation would be one of those occasions. It is, among other things, the state’s biggest white-collar welfare scheme, both mismanaged and mendacious. Here’s the effectual motto of the WEDC: Corruption, Cronyism, and Incompetence…
Misconduct
The Great Innovator
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A small, sad truth that I ran across recently: “Fortune named Enron “America’s Most Innovative Company” for six consecutive years.” That’s the one-and-only Enron, the now-bankrupt energy company whose name lives on as a reminder of lies, misconduct, and accounting fraud. All those billions lost, those thousands left unemployed, those many more swindled. Reproach not,…