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A 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.
It'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...
Can you elaborate on this? Wisconsin has never struck me as a state with a particularly conservative streak.
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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...
> I grew up in Milwaukee, and I agree, it only serves to support the strong division in that city. Can you elaborate on this? Wisconsin has never struck me as a state with a particularly conservative streak.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/milwaukee-wisc-is-most-segre...
http://www.salon.com/2011/03/29/most_segregated_cities/slide...
I 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 t…
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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...
> I grew up in Milwaukee, and I agree, it only serves to support the strong division in that city. Can you elaborate on this? Wisconsin has never struck me as a state with a particularly conservative streak.
Historically Wisconsin has been a pretty progressive state, similar to its neighbors Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.
Milwaukee, like most big midwest cities, is highly segregated with some pretty frightening ghettos and areas of poverty, although not as bad as cities whose economies have done worse like Detroit, Cleveland, etc.
Kudos for breaking the mold and I love the design from a "this is new and fun" perspective, but I completely disagree from a functional perspective. It looks really neat (if a little over-testosteroned), but if I'm visiting the police's web page then I might want to do one of the following (there are plenty more, these are just an example): - Find the non-emergency number for the police; - Report a crime; - Find my c…
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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...
> I grew up in Milwaukee, and I agree, it only serves to support the strong division in that city. Can you elaborate on this? Wisconsin has never struck me as a state with a particularly conservative streak.
Similarly, I grew up in California, which used to be famous for how liberal it was, until the Republicans got their act together and actually used their majority some uh.. 7 years ago? Ish? (I might also be mischaracterizing this; I'm basing this off memory rather than stats.)
Why are the Milwaukee police more heavily armed than the soldiers in Afghanistan?
Yes, they're wearing black, and have a lot of random junk attached to them, but they're not necessarily much more heavily armed than a CA CHP car with a shotgun and an AR-15 or M16A1 inside.
The APC, yeah, that's a bit over the top.
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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...
> I grew up in Milwaukee, and I agree, it only serves to support the strong division in that city. Can you elaborate on this? Wisconsin has never struck me as a state with a particularly conservative streak.
Additionally, there have been some bad incidents involving racial prejudices in recent history. A few years ago, there was a small riot between blacks/whites after the state fair. Which was then followed up with a neo nazi march countered by an anti-protest. Tensions still seem a bit high when I talk to my parents.