Sheriff David Clarke may have said he was against cronyism, but the reality is that he’s busy promoting his friends.
Historically, transfers within the Sheriff’s Department have been used to fill vacancies in bureaus, punish the ‘malcontents’ and fill the cushy jobs with deputies from the ‘golden friends’ list. It has been the springboard [...]

Watchdog Milwaukee is a favorite among the law enforcement community. Why? Because we tell the stories that other news sources neglect.
Multiple Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department insiders contact me about various stories and I consider it an honor that they put so much trust in me but that honor comes with a [...]

Sheriff David Clarke is capriciously dispensing discipline on internal affairs cases. Let’s do something different for this story. We’ll let the readers match the facts of the cases to what they believe the disciplinary result was.
Case 1: off duty deputy solicits an undercover MPD officer for sex, gets arrested. This is a [...]

Yesterday’s big news in town — Milwaukee Police called off one of their habitual, costly, self-gratifying prostitution stings because the hotel (the county jail) was booked up — calls into question how serious law enforcement is about the rise in violent crime in Milwaukee.
When MPD Chief Nan Hegerty threw the hooker bomb at a news [...]

Donald Holt, the Republican candidate for Milwaukee County sheriff, doesn't believe in pointing fingers. It's not his style. But he sees what many observers say are major problems facing law enforcement in Milwaukee: A lack of coordination and a void in leadership.

“I think we can cooperate better as law enforcement agencies,” [...]

We finally have ward totals from the Sept. 12 primary.  The sheriff's race was won and lost on the north side of Milwaukee.
The numbers for Sheriff David Clarke in the black community are overwhelming across the board, beginning on Holton Street in Riverwest and heading west and north out to the Granville area and [...]