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Two people were killed and one seriously wounded by a 17-year-old who had answered the call for armed civilians to protect the city
Calls to shift funds from policing to programs that improve quality of life for people of color aren’t new. But this time, more people are listening.
Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used an unprecedented amount of texts and social media to communicate with campus during an emergency Sept. 18.
Because of teamwork involving a private homicide review team, charges have now been filed against two men — eight years after the violence that left three people dead and four injured.
The investigation of Andrew Nehmer’s 1986 murder highlights both the opportunities that new technologies present for solving old crimes and the challenges posed by degraded evidence, vanishing witnesses and fading memories.
The owner of a home mistakenly entered by an intoxicated neighbor who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer arriving on the scene said he tried repeatedly to inform the officer that the intruder was someone known to him.
The situation facing Dane County indicates a problem that pervades the whole state.