In my job, I drove thru Monona, daily.

The news link is based in the UK.

A more local news source is right here. https://www.channel3000.com/conversations-about-racial-bias-continue-after-monona-neighbor-calls-cops-on-suspicious-black-person/

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Now lets get to the larger picture which is the Madison Metropolitan area: Madison, Sun Prairie, Madison, Fitchburg, Middleton, DeForest, Oregon and McFarland municipalities.


I get some news regarding Monona Police a few times a week. Drunks, drug deals, homeless, pan handling and the mentally ill are what I hear about.

The quality of what the police are allowed to do effectively is related to the County judicial system and overcrowded jails and rules of evidence. Some things are just not taken care of. Then we have an item which may be an emergency. Psychology and adrenalin of both the police and the person who called in to 911 intermix.
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Police departments (whether large or small) can't keep citizens from reporting burglaries. And given the fact that that is what they are dispatched to investigate ... Not sure if their subsequent actions here fall anywhere outside the norm. Is that the claim being advanced?

With help from a citizen Karen. Then backed off .. and apologized. Twice. A far better outcome than you get in a lot of circumstances.

that a different person was there now.

Would she have assumed it was a burglar if it was a white person or would she have thought this must be the new person that is moving in knowing the previous owner had passed away ?

There are problems with cops but these people are a problem also reporting shit like this.

Many moons ago, neighbors across the street went on vacation. They let us know, asked us to keep an eye on things. Several days later, a van pulls up in front. A man (white) is going in the house and taking things out to the van.

I tell my dad and ask him should we call the police. He agrees, so we do. They arrive. One knocks on the front door, one goes around back. They had their weapons drawn.

Turns out, they had a contractor doing work on a bathroom while they were gone. They didn’t tell anyone. Scared the every living bejeezus out of the poor guy.

I still feel terrible to this day.

I don’t think this neighbor was being a “Karen”. There was just suddenly someone in a vacant house and she wasn’t sure who. The incident was resolved how it should have. Safely. Calmly. I don’t get the filed complaint. The police were told a potential burglary. They investigated, checked all the facts, apologized.

What more should’ve happened there?

I don’t know if that’s standard in burglary investigations - I honestly don’t.

Just sharing my experiences.