{"id":13627,"date":"2024-10-24T20:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2024-10-24T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:55:53","slug":"jagler-mps-could-pay-a-price-for-cop-recalcitrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13627","title":{"rendered":"Jagler: MPS could pay a price for cop recalcitrance"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/jagler-mps-could-pay-a-price-for-cop-recalcitrance\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Dem Rep. Clancy says district should ignore its end of officers-for-sales-tax deal<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Almost 17 months after the City of Milwaukee cut a $184 million sales tax deal that was supposed to have put police officers back in Milwaukee Public Schools, district officials are holding listening sessions to hear why the whole thing was a bad idea.<\/p>\n

MPS\u2019 ongoing resistance to complying with the state\u2019s requirement, according to state Sen. John Jagler, chair of the Senate\u2019s Education Committee, is going to boomerang on the financially strapped district the next time it comes to the Legislature looking for tax money.<\/p>\n

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State Sen. John Jagler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they realize the damage they\u2019re causing here,\u201d Jagler, R-Watertown, told the Badger Institute. \u201cRight now, there is very little we can do to force their hand, and they well know it. But how are we supposed to make any bargains with them going forward? I\u2019m not going to be fooled again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The district\u2019s Accountability, Finance and Personnel Committee fueled Jagler\u2019s ire when it hosted a parade of speakers Monday night, some of them coached by Leaders Igniting Transformation, an activist group that spearheaded the removal<\/a> of officers from MPS schools in 2016.<\/p>\n

One after another, faculty, current and former students told the committee officers were not wanted or needed in the schools. One speaker, Ryan Clancy, a state Assembly member whose district includes Milwaukee\u2019s east side, went as far as advising the district to ignore the deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAct 12 was written, and this provision was written, in a way that you can, and should, ignore,\u201d Clancy, a Democrat, told the committee. \u201cThere are no teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Badger Institute has been reporting <\/a>since 2022, calls from MPS schools for police support \u2014 nearly 800 in fall of 2022 \u2014 have been on the rise for the past several semesters. At that time, Mayor Cavalier Johnson indicated that he had been involved in talks to bring the officers back.<\/p>\n

Out of those talks came an agreement <\/a>that would allow the City of Milwaukee beginning this year to levy a 2% sales tax, one the state Department of Revenue estimated would raise $184 million in the first year, Communications Director Jennifer Bacon said.<\/p>\n

Legislators who approved the deal added a requirement that MPS put at least 25 officers back in the high schools beginning Jan. 1, 2024.<\/p>\n

Nearly 17 months later, MPS still has no timetable for when the officers will return and no agreement with the Milwaukee Police Department about whose budget will carry the estimated $2 million a year to pay for the law enforcement protection.<\/p>\n

Several MPS leaders, including Interim Superintendent Eduardo Galvan, have been steadfast in opposing making the school district pay for the officers.<\/p>\n

Jagler said he has inquired among legislative leaders and doesn\u2019t think there is any leverage to get MPS to act, or to somehow punish the City of Milwaukee, which is levying the sales tax.<\/p>\n

Jagler said he\u2019s been taken to task for being \u201ca white guy representing a district 50 miles away and piling on\u201d the students in an urban school district. Those students, he said, deserve the same safe learning environment as every other student in the state his committee oversees.<\/p>\n

Judging from conversations with some of the interested parties, Jagler isn\u2019t confident officers will return to the schools any time soon. That, he says, is sending a terrible message to members of the Legislature across the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to be in for some tough negotiations in the next session,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mark Lisheron is the Managing Editor of the Badger Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

Any\u00a0use or reproduction of Badger Institute articles or photographs requires prior written\u00a0permission.\u00a0To request permission to post articles on a website or print copies for distribution, contact Badger Institute President Mike Nichols at\u00a0mike@badgerinstitute.org<\/a>\u00a0or 262-389-8239.<\/em><\/p>\n

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