In Whitewater, the effort to discover Adams' identity included examining his e-mails and Web site registration, running a license plate check on a man suspected of being Adams (he wasn't), and suggesting city officials conduct surveillance at the dedication of a restored historic landmark on the chance he might be there.



Stories like this are common these days. But nobody cares, so long as THEY aren't the ones being investigated.

As someone who just moved to Wisconsin.. i can tell you that outside of perhaps (from what I've read) Milwaukee and the problem areas there, there isn't much else for cops to be worried about in this state.

Hell last night at our huge St Pattys day party, there was a State Trooper.. I asked him how busy he gets with crime.. he said "there isn't any.. so i mostly help with stranded motorists".

what an asshole. let the blogger have his say.
obviously, if you're going to use resources to track him down instead of improving yourself, you need to no longer be police chief.

That's some nice cyberwork, Lou.

FTA: He said the efforts... were aimed at seeking a dialogue with the blogger to address his complaints about the city. "I think the impetus was to try to engage in some civil discourse with that person."

Riiiiiiight..... If by "Seeking a dialogue" you mean "kicking the crap out of and planting evidence on" then maybe.

If they want a dialogue then why not just write an open letter in the local paper?

Someone is stealing my water!

SilentStrider: what an asshole. let the blogger have his say.
obviously, if you're going to use resources to track him down instead of improving yourself, you need to no longer be police chief.

I wonder if our local community could benefit from blogging like this...?

It'd be really funny if "John Adams" turns out to be some 14 year old blogging from Germany.

Dr.Knockboots: As someone who just moved to Wisconsin.. i can tell you that outside of perhaps (from what I've read) Milwaukee and the problem areas there, there isn't much else for cops to be worried about in this state.

Hell last night at our huge St Pattys day party, there was a State Trooper.. I asked him how busy he gets with crime.. he said "there isn't any.. so i mostly help with stranded motorists".

As someone who grew up in the town next to Whitewater, THIS

"Can't you people take the law into your own hands? I mean, we can't be policing the entire city!"

zz9: FTA: He said the efforts... were aimed at seeking a dialogue with the blogger to address his complaints about the city. "I think the impetus was to try to engage in some civil discourse with that person."

Riiiiiiight..... If by "Seeking a dialogue" you mean "kicking the crap out of and planting evidence on" then maybe.

If they want a dialogue then why not just write an open letter in the local paper?


Or why not just post a reply on the guys blog.

makes about as much sense as teeters on a boar

How can Fark get these scumbags out of office?

Mr. Chief is about to learn what "Streisanded" means

Does anyone really care what a blogger has to say? Well, I mean besides small-minded city officials? Oh no, xXxDonkeyStylexXx thinks my water redistribution plan is "like totally uncool."

Needs more wiggum



We have a saying around here, "Let Michigan handle it."

/FTFY

I believe the answer is "Shoot him in the Face".

Pretty much the same thing happened in Berrien Springs, Michigan with the police chief and a blogger.

The police chief was heard making racist remarks and ran his own little fiefdom. He's gone now though...so free speech had some hand in his outster.

I go to UW Whitewater, and the police here have nothing better to do.

Cops = America's enemies.

Begoggle: How can Fark get these scumbags out of office?

Cattle prods. Lots and lots of cattle prods.

loudnoises: I go to UW Whitewater

I'm sorry.

/lived in Fort Atkinson
//lasted all of 6 months
///Whitewater Wal-Mart isn't even open 24 hours

altoids85: zz9: FTA: He said the efforts... were aimed at seeking a dialogue with the blogger to address his complaints about the city. "I think the impetus was to try to engage in some civil discourse with that person."

Riiiiiiight..... If by "Seeking a dialogue" you mean "kicking the crap out of and planting evidence on" then maybe.

If they want a dialogue then why not just write an open letter in the local paper?


Or why not just post a reply on the guys blog.

Or a link to a Fark thread.

Whitewater is a corrupt town. That much is certain. I lived there a few years ago. I remember students having a peaceful anti-war protest and a townie punching one of the protesters in the face. The students had it recorded on tape, the police blamed the students and did nothing. When students tried to get a polling booth on campus a member of the city council stated that students should vote in their parents district and not whitewater. The local judge used drugs, which I witnessed. lots of fun stuff. A great portion of the town is owned by one guy, that can't help things.

My wife is from Whitewater and her mom and brothers still live there.

Her mom got a pretty substantial ticket sometime last year from the Whitewater PD because she didn't bring her garbage cans in on trash day, and left them sit out until late the next day.

Yeah, cops in that town are friggin bored.

I don't quite live there, but my brother is a Whitewater grad and as such I've been in Whitewater many times.

The problems Whitewater faces are that if there aren't classes in session, the place is a ghost town, because classes are the only reason to be in Whitewater, or anywhere else in the area code. Think a town like Starkville, Mississippi, but downgrade college and football team to Division 3, and you've got Whitewater.

Whitewater is terrible. Downright terrible.

/former wisconsonite
//janesville wi

meh. another petty tyrant with thin skin. and a whinner too.

in addition to all the fun corruption, a B movie is being made about the place. Link (new window)

Also, the entire town of Whitewater has maybe, MAYBE one snowplow. When it snows, the streets turn into skating rinks.

My wife and in-laws are from Whitewater, so guess what I'm getting out of this replies?

also, these replies.

Also, I apparently can't write in English anymore. Apologies for existing.

Those damned Podunk cops and their petty tyranies.

I say: climb the chain of command and get the bastard fired.

Grew up in Whitewater, found myself on "the list" in my late teens drinking underage. They'll go to any length to harrass, including setting up 'stings' for underage drinkers and the use of high school age informants from their youth police league. Larry Meyer from the article is one of the worst offenders in that PD (his drug addict brother killed himself in his early 20's). The city is mostly owned by one man, Mr. Katchell, a fat bastard, and the town is mostly republican and ultra conservative. Hell to grow up in. Author Stephen Ambrose left, derided the town as Hell with Picket Fences. It is true the city council will not allow students 10,000 of the 14,000 residents to have their own polling place on campus.

Me, I moved to the next county to get away.

Glad to see that sheriff Joe Arpaio's tactics are spreading.

TFA: Adams said his goal is not to tear down his Walworth County community but to improve it. He continues to criticize Coan, whom he charges with failing to address serious problems within the police department.
That includes the actions of a now-retired police investigator whom a prosecutor said destroyed evidence and falsified the results of a search warrant while investigating a local businessman. Coan declined to say whether Larry Meyer was disciplined.

Disciplined??? Hell, if you or I did something like that, we'd find our butt in jail, and rather quickly. Not to cop-bash (but I'm going to do it anyway...) Fark'em, fark'em all!

nunia: Those damned Podunk cops and their petty tyranies.

I say: climb the chain of command and get the bastard fired.


I think i need help, I read that as "Those damned Podunk cops and their pretty trannies."

And thought to myself... lucky bastards

take away the Chief's donuts until he catches the guy :)

This guy sounds like a Paulite. So to add to my previous post.....

Glad to see that libertarian ideas are still spreading.

I'm sure that this police chief will be swiftly and appropriately dealt with by the local town council.

/JK!!!

Brunner defended the officials involved, saying: "They're good people. I think they just wanted to talk to this person. I don't think he (Coan) was trying to stifle anyone's freedom of speech."

Yeah right. If you want to talk to him send him and email or arrange an anonymous phone call. There's no reason you need to know who someone is to talk to them.

Link to new movie about whitewater:\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCWLed98QFM&feature=related

I remember hearing something about one of these hidden conspiracy secrets like this when i was a kid growing up there. And there are plenty in creepy little whitewater.

Another fact about the Big Brother State in whitewater:

Whitewater was among the first places, before the UK even, to set up "secret" surveillance cameras on telephone poles throughout the town. They were secret, that is, until one day at the local cable provider office, someone pushed a wrong button and everyone in town could tune in to channel 14 and get a view of all the "high crime areas" in realtime video.

Then it was promptly shut down to the public.

A quick peek at the Whitewater city hall/police dept executive bathroom sheds some light:

Maybe it's an inside job.


- Worried in West Springfield

I also attend UW-Whitewater.
Whitewater locals basically hate all the students.
But thats ok, we don't like most of them either.

Erik Evensen: Also, I apparently can't write in English anymore. Apologies for existing.

That's what slashies are for. To explain how you farked up in a single handy post.

/just sayin'.