By M.D. Kittle
MADISON — Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm predicted a long time ago that his “progressive” style of law enforcement would come back to hurt society.
“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into [a] treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody?” the Democrat DA told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007. “You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”
That “individual” is Darrell E. Brooks Jr, according to police. Brooks now faces six counts of intentional homicide after he allegedly plowed through a Waukesha Christmas parade on Nov. 21. Dozens more were injured, many of them seriously.
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Why the negativity? My family and I were at this parade and had a blast. All news and social media outlets made it out to be some sort of upsetting tragedy, but it wasn’t like that. Nothing unusual or unexpected happened. The children got candy tossed to them, and the adults got somebody to nourish their hatred — end of story. But I know how Midwesterners think: Any parade is better than no parade, and a big parade with a villain is preferable to a small one with a saint. The Earth is just another parade float, and not a particularly interesting one.