Milwaukee council loves cop killers: Bucher

We've all heard some lawyers described as ambulance chasers.

District Attorney Paul Bucher, who wants to be attorney general, is a media hound. That's one step below ambulance chasers.

Barely done grandstanding at a news conference about a rash of Memorial Day weekend shootings in Milwaukee, Bucher's campaign cranked out a rather amazing news release, even for him, attacking the Milwaukee Common Council.

The Council, as near as I can decipher from his release, must be soft on cop killers.

Aldermen apparently didn't pass a resolution fast enough to suit Bucher, who of course is not a city resident and doesn't even live in Milwaukee County.

According to Bucher's release:

Two Milwaukee aldermen presented the resolution to the Common Council on Wednesday. It reads: “This resolution requests the State Parole Commission to give considerable weight in its parole deliberation to requests for parole for those inmates convicted before December 31, 1999, of homicide against peace officers, thereby reducing or eliminating the opportunity for parole.”

So, did they vote it or amend it so say cop killers should be released? No. They simply sent it to a committee for review, as is customary, rather than voting on something that had just been stuck under their noses for the sake of political posturing.

Will passage of the resolution have any impact on the Parole Commission's decisions? Highly doubtful. A resolution doesn't change the law, the rules or the commission's procedures, as Bucher well knows. It's pretty much meaningless. And so is Bucher's hot rhetoric. Will it get a story, or will the media critic, Ms. McBride, be forced to complain that no one in the left wing media used it? (Hey, I did. That should count for something.)