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Following a six-month nationwide search, Wauwatosa native James MacGillis was named the new police chief of Wauwatosa on Thursday. The Wauwatosa Police and Fire Commission, a five-member citizen-led panel chaired by a former Wauwatosa police detective, confirmed the choice by a vote of 4-1. MacGillis is the former director of training at the Milwaukee Police Academy and the current drug intelligence officer for the North Central High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program. I am humbled and proud to have been selected to lead the Wauwatosa Police Department as its next chief, MacGillis told the commission after the vote. MacGillis will helm a department that last year saw a fatal police shooting, a mass shooting, citywide curfews and months of protests throughout the city. ....
Wauwatosa Police Department Reports High Turnover In Last Year - Wauwatosa, WI - Police department says they've had an 'extraordinary' amount of turnover since May of 2020. ....
Wauwatosa wants to address an increase in panhandling activity in its medians, more than two years after the city repealed a law that prohibited “aggressive panhandling.” The discussion of the city s handling of panhandlers comes days after a 24-year-old woman was hit while asking for money near Mayfair mall. That woman is still in critical condition at Froedtert Hospital, according to Wauwatosa Police Capt. Luke Vetter. In 2018, the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin sent letters to Wauwatosa and seven other Wisconsin cities asking them to get rid of their panhandling laws, calling the laws unconstitutional in the wake of a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. ....
Things aren t looking good for Hermanas. A Wauwatosa committee on Tuesday denied the plans for the restaurant again. But this time, committee members stated the specific reasons why they voted to deny the upscale Mexican restaurant planned for 11320 W. Bluemound Road. The community affairs committee voted, 6-2, to deny Dan Zierath the application because of his record with the city, his public behavior, police reports that outline multiple reports of calls for service to his restaurants and testimony from alderpeople and nearby neighbors. It s just a list of ongoing minor infractions of not following the regulations, and I think you heard from the neighbors that businesses should be a good neighbor and a good part of the neighborhood as well, Ald. Nancy Welch said during the meeting. ....