Madison Common Council members met for an impromptu meeting Friday where they discussed “placemaking,” which is the process of making city locales more desirable destinations, as a means to improve safety.
An intoxicated University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was walking and texting suffered a possible concussion from being hit by a car while crossing University Avenue early Friday morning, according to a police report.
There was a moment early in Madison Police Chief Noble Wray’s tenure when he was sure his short-lived career had come to a screeching halt.
Read the full transcript of an interview with retiring Madison Police Department Chief Noble Wray. View the story here.
Several statewide leadership and law-enforcement agencies are putting the rapid proliferation of heroin abuse in Wisconsin at the forefront of concern and teaming up with local organizations to educate people about preventing and treating the alarming problem.
Freakfest organizers announced new additions to the Halloween bash’s line-up on the event’s Facebook page Wednesday, which include Neon Indian, 3LAU, Dirty Disco Kidz, Fort Wilson Riot and Gabe Burdullis.
The number of strong-armed robberies in Madison is up this year due to what the Madison Police Department is calling “Apple picking,” but armed robberies are not significantly higher than in any of the past five years.
Local alcohol and law enforcement officials informed bar owners and employees about how to better protect their patrons and staff at the biannual Tavern Safety Training Wednesday, which focused on fire safety and the effectiveness of the Central Community Policing Team.
Four houses in the same campus-area residential block were burglarized early Sunday morning, according to a Madison Police Department report.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department is coordinating stricter patrols of campus-area intersections with the city’s Transportation Enforcement Safety Team to crack down on traffic violations and safety hazards at busy crosswalks, according to UWPD spokesperson Marc Lovicott.
A local police officer was penalized Thursday for operating a weapon while intoxicated earlier this year, Madison Police Department Lt. Dan Olivas said in a Professional Standard and Internal Affairs Summary.
Madison Police Department Sergeant Jason Sweeney commended two downtown patrol officers “for the compassion and empathy” they showed to a struggling homeless family sleeping on State Street Sunday morning, according to a police report.
The Board of Estimates unanimously approved an amendment to the 2014 Executive Capital Budget at a meeting Monday that would more than triple the amount of money allotted to downtown surveillance cameras.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne announced Monday he would not file charges against Damon Terrell for the alleged battery of a police officer during Terrell’s arrest last month at the Solidarity Sing Along Protests in the Capitol.
Locate recent crimes around the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and the city of Madison from the week of Sept. 16-Sept. 22, 2013.
In 1963 a full scholarship to play Badger football was worth $1100 a year. But, even with the help of his scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Richard “Dick” LaCroix had to work harder than he ever dreamed to complete his education at UW-Madison.
The Madison Police Department and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department are working in conjunction to put more officers on the streets in campus areas that have experienced recent upticks in dangerous crimes, according to MPD spokesperson Joel DeSpain.
The most modern public library downtown Madison has ever seen celebrated its opening this past weekend.
In perhaps the cheesiest event of the season, contestants hailed from all over the country to Library Mall to engage in the only nationally sanctioned pizza-eating contest, hosted by Madison’s famous Ian’s Pizza Saturday.
A sexual aggressor fled when the college-aged woman he pushed to the ground Sunday morning near State Street kicked the suspect, according to a police report.
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