Milwaukee residents need to follow up on this if we are going to allow our cops to fight Cruisers that invade our streets every summer. In the past week, there were two Cruising incidents, both resulted in shooting, three people were wounded.
The following quote is from a letter by Alderman Bob Donovan. Excerpt from Sykes Writes:
Caught your comments this morning on cruising. I couldn’t agree more. I just wanted to clarify some of the legalities"¦last year I met with the City Attorney, the police and our legislative drafting people. We strengthened legislation to increase the ability to tow vehicles involved in cruising.
Additionally, the Common Council, in a vote of 14-1 also passed a resolution to lobby the State for legislation to strengthen our abilities even more. That was over a year ago – and to date, the Mayor’s administration has done nothing with it. They haven’t even introduced legislation, much less begun the lobbying process. Very disappointing that our Mayor, who maintains that public safety is his number one concern, is not directing his lobbyists to push for better State legislation when it comes to cruising.
If we are going to end cruising, we need to pressure our representatives on the state level to change the law needed to confiscate the vehicles.
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