If you want your city to be perceived as a war zone, this is the website for you.
Milwaukee Police News
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#12Excellent looking site (Takes ages to load although that might be HN bashing it)
About the only thing I don't like about it is the preponderance of images featuring gun-toting SWAT members, armoured cars etc, seems a bit hollywood.
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#13It's militaristic, it's alienating, it's fetishistic, it's hostile, it insidiously portrays class and ethnic conflict as an everyday battle worth fighting, and it panders to the worst in Americans who already endorse the myriad excesses and injustices of an ever-growing quasi-private law and order machine that has ruined the lives of millions.
But awesome job on the scrollbars, yo.
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#14This looks as if it had been done by the Yes Men, but the WHOIS record tells that it is official.
Seriously, the job of the police is to uphold the law, not to look catch criminals or look cool in their paramilitary gear.
Here's the scary bit: the police relies on the support of the community and yet puts forth that image of itself. If they think that looking that way improves their image one will be better off staying far away both from the citizens of Milwaukee and its police department.
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#15The militarization of police departments, including professional propaganda, is scary.
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#16I've been very annoyed at/interested in non-obvious menu item labels lately. For example, on this site we have "The Source" and "The Stats"–I would have no guesses as to what those mean.
I see this with my own website customers as well. Instead of "Pricing", they use "Investment" and instead of "Contact", they use "Hello" or "Inquiries".
Does anyone have links explaining if/why this is bad?
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#17I despise sites like this, they are _painful_ to use and the transfer of actual information is nearly zero. I spend more time trying to get the content to line up than I do consuming it. It comes off as a tech demonstration put together without a single thought given to the usability or business goals of the site. Another example of this type of design: http://www.sugarloaf2020.com/
Please stop designing sites like this.
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#18A nitpick about the website: It completely breaks the back button. Back un-scrolls?! WTF.
And now for the sad commentary on the social state: The vehicle in the picture says "Rescue" on it in large, friendly letters. The vehicle is a tank festooned with gun ports.
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#19Not only was this site posted just 16 days ago,[1] but as I commented at the time, scrolling the site causes 100% usage of one of my CPU's cores. This is still the case.
The fact that so many people consider sites such as this to be "awesome" is one of the many reasons I'm glad I no longer work for clients.
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#20It's militaristic, it's alienating, it's fetishistic, it's hostile, it insidiously portrays class and ethnic conflict as an everyday battle worth fighting, and it panders to the worst in Americans who already endorse the myriad excesses and injustices of an ever-growing quasi-private law and order machine that has ruined the lives of millions. But awesome job on the scrollbars, yo.
I grew up in Milwaukee, and I agree, it only serves to support the strong division in that city.
I wonder if this is related to hiring problems? The glorification could help find new candidates. I hear the MPD is always hiring...