the barking broadcast voices in the "totalitarian" spectrum of the AM radio band would surely have gotten him fired, by now, with the full acclamation and approval of the Journal Sentinel's editorial board:
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/34180154.htmlExcerpt:
On a frigid and snowy Sunday afternoon in February, Brian Allen drove his car off the Good Hope Road entrance ramp to Highway 41/45 and into a nearby snow bank.
It looked, at first glance, like a run-of-the-mill winter accident.
At least that's the way Sheriff David Clarke Jr. treated it.
But he couldn't have been more wrong.
Clarke, the first cop at the scene, instantly moved into helper mode. First, he tried to push and then pull Allen's vehicle out of the snow bank. But even with the help of another motorist, Clarke couldn't get Allen and his Ford Taurus back on the road.
That's when the second officer arrived.
Deputy Sandra Santoro did what any good cop should have done from the start.
Santoro ran a check on the driver and found that his license was suspended. She then sized up Allen, noticing his eyes were bloodshot and glassy and that he reeked of alcohol. Visible inside his car were two empty beer bottles, one empty beer can and an open beer can, still three-quarters full.
"I'm not gonna lie to you," Allen told Santoro, according to her police report. "I was drinking. I had a few beers. I knew I was busted when you guys came.
"I almost got away with it."
As it turned out, Allen's blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit. The 43-year-old driver later pleaded no contest to drunken driving, agreeing to pay a $764 fine.
Two cops, two different responses.
Guess which one is now in trouble?
Officials with the Milwaukee County sheriff's office opened an internal investigation of Santoro a couple of months ago - around the time No Quarter asked for all records related to the February incident.
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