City of Milwaukee - File #: 051712

• File #: 051712
• Version: 2
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/11/2006
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 5/9/2006
• Title: Substitute resolution requesting state officials and agencies to comprehensively study homicide and related criminal violence sentencing disparities affecting black males in Wisconsin.
• Sponsors: ALD. MCGEE JR.
• Indexes: CRIME PREVENTION, SOCIAL CONCERNS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
5/15/2006	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
5/9/2006	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
5/9/2006	1	COMMON COUNCIL	SUBSTITUTED	Pass	15:0
5/9/2006	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
5/1/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Speakers: Ald. McGee Sharon Cook - Intergovernmental Relations Deputy Inspector Anna Ruzinski - Milwaukee Police Department. Ms. Ruzinski will have a communication file introduced for a report before this Committee by the Homicide Review Committee. Ald. McGee might work with Ms. Cook to finetune the language prior to the Council meeting of May 9th for a substitute on the Council floor.	Pass	4:0
4/24/2006	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
4/24/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
4/11/2006	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
051712
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. MCGEE
Title
Substitute resolution requesting state officials and agencies to comprehensively study homicide and related criminal violence sentencing disparities affecting black males in Wisconsin.
Analysis
This resolution extends an invitation to the Director of the Wisconsin Sentencing Commission to appear and provide information to the common council through the Judiciary and Legislation Committee concerning the Commission’s study on race as a basis for imposing sentences in criminal cases. The resolution includes requests for information relating to the status of the study report, the elements to be included in the report, whether the report will include analysis of the experience of Milwaukee County and other geographic locations, and information about how the report is intended to be used or may be used by state or local officials.

The Intergovernmental Relations Division-Department of Administration is authorized and directed to seek legislation extending or eliminating the sunset provisions affecting the Wisconsin Sentencing Commission. Such legislation will direct that the Commission prepare a comprehensive report on the issue of race as a basis for sentencing in Wisconsin. In addition, the report will include analysis of sentence severity, rates of incarceration in homicide cases and in other violent felonies and misdemeanors and will also include analysis of the relationship of race of offenders and victims in violent crimes to the severity of sentence, comparisons among geographic areas of the state including Milwaukee County. The Commission will also be directed to provide periodic updates.

The resolution directs the City Clerk to forward copies of the resolution to the Governor, Clerks of the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and to the Attorney General.
Body
Whereas, Black males in Wisconsin and Milwaukee are disproportionately the victims o...