Police
Department seeks tougher mob violence laws
Opposition to freeway expansion
recommended by Barrett lobbying team
Sept.
12 -- The Police Department wants
the city to push for new laws prohibiting
mob violence and tougher penalties for engaging
in it, documents show.
In
another lobbying recommendation, Mayor Tom
Barrett's administration is recommending the
city continue to oppose the expansion of I-94
and I-43 within the city limits.
The
proposed city lobbying priorities are to be
considered Monday by the Common Council's
Judiciary and Legislation Committee.
The
Police Department's mob violence proposal,
made in the wake of at least four vicious
mob attacks this summer , is vague -- it doesn't
define "mob" or specify the penalties
that should apply to "mob violence."
The
department, in its request for specific lobbying
efforts, also is asking that the city seek
tougher penalties for prostitutes who conduct
their business knowing they have AIDS -- but
are not seeking the same for infected johns
who solicit prostitutes.
One department request, at least as interpreted
in a summary document, simply must be an error:
"Those
who patronize prostitutes when pleading guilty
to a lesser charge of Disorderly Conduct should
be precluded from doing so in the future."
Whoa.
Didn't know Muni Court was that entertaining.
Other
lobbying priorities for the city, as proposed
by various city departments, include working
for state legislation that would:
