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Wisconsin Examiner
U.S. Marshals Service working with local police “entirely outside” their role, says Baldwin
Sen. Tammy Baldwin
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Questions still loom over the Wauwatosa emergency declaration in October, and exactly which agencies were on the ground assisting local enforcement operations. Some of them are now coming from Sen. Tammy Baldwin, following the revelation that U.S. Marshals were on the ground during the suburb’s curfew order.
Wisconsin’s largest city was on a short list of Democratic-led cities set to receive federal support through Operation: Legend. The effort, which grew out of an earlier incarnation called Operation: Relentless Pursuit, was supposed to focus on violent crime. As the over $70 million effort took aim at crime in Milwaukee, another $10.2 million was offered to hire additional local police officers, and yet another $100,000 from ATF to install shot detection devices in the city. Meanwhile, federal forces