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Police Chief Gets Raise, but Not Officers
One WOW county lawmaker is raising questions about the new five-figure pay raise for Milwaukee’s police chief.
Sen. Julian Bradley, R-New Berlin, on Thursday questioned why Milwaukee has money to pay for Chief Jeffrey Norman’s pay raise, but not for a new contract for police officers.
“Completely out of touch and outrageous for Chief Norman to say that he earned his $65k raise & new contract while his officers have gone 956 days without one,” Bradley wrote on X.
Milwaukee’s police officers have been working without a contract since January of 2023, and are in the middle of new contract negotiations.
Bradley has been urging Milwaukee leaders to agree to a new deal for weeks.
“They’ve earned theirs too and deserve support from the Chief,” Bradley added on X.
Last week Bradley was critical of Milwaukee’s mayor for essentially crying poor, and blaming the state legislature for a lack of support.
“It's been 950 days since the MPD has been working without a contract. In that time, the state enabled the city of Milwaukee to collect more than $287 million in new sales taxes and over $47 million in shared revenue. That money is meant for police, fire, and pensions,” Bradley wrote in a post last Friday.
Those comments came after Milwaukee’s mayor told reporters that the Republican-led legislature hasn’t supported public safety enough in Wisconsin.
If you put all 50 states in a barrel, you have to scrape the very bottom of that barrel to see where the state of Wisconsin’s investment in local law enforcement is,” Mayor Cavalier Johnson said. “So as much as I appreciate the things that they're saying, I would like to stay to step-up and provide some additional funding for law enforcement.”
On Thursday, Bradley again dinged the mayor.
“We need real leadership in Milwaukee,” he added.
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