Paul Mozina levels a string of critiques against Milwaukee’s City Attorney’s Office and celebrates Jimmy Harris’ successful court case against the City of Milwaukee and members of the Milwaukee Police Department.
OPINION: The Fire and Police Commission needs to scrutinize MPD’s use of confidential informants, coerced confessions and no-knock search warrants
The idea that it is OK for the police to lie to a person, or manipulate or coerce them, to get the testimony they want without honoring that person’s request to have a lawyer present is anathema to any sense of justice.
OPINION: Where are the teeth? The Fire and Police Commission has no business serving as the MPD’s watchdog
The Fire and Police Commission is badly broken. Can it be fixed?
The War on Drugs is taking its toll on our communities. Why won’t we talk about it?
It’s time to end the War on Drugs. ALL drugs. The harmful effects of drug prohibition have accrued over three generations in Milwaukee since it was ramped up by Richard Nixon, who intentionally targeted minority populations and the anti-war movement.
Heroin, Opioid and Cocaine Task Force misses opportunity
Paul Mozina, a retired IT professional and an activist who has opposed the War on Drugs since the early 1980s, calls out the Milwaukee City-County Heroin, Opioid and Cocaine Task Force for failing to follow up on a DEA whistle-blower’s testimony that “physicians are pumping pills on the street.”