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Neighbors say the sounds have destroyed their quality of life for years, but officials have done nothing about it. The Rock's owners refused to allow a sound study team commissioned by the Milwaukee County access to their facilities or sound monitors, but Franklin city officials eventually revealed that two of the development's three monitors weren't operable, and the remaining one hadn't been calibrated for four years. That's according to the new sound study and attorney's summary accompanying it. The study found that the city isn't proactively enforcing sound concerns at the Rock but rather places the burden on citizens who live nearby "to enforce the noise standard" by making complaints. Franklin officials then enforce complaints by gathering "unreliable" data from the inoperable or non-calibrated monitors, using a flawed ordinance and development agreement that makes violations almost impossible to achieve, the documents say...

This is another chapter in Wisconsin Right Now’s investigative series – the “No Process Files” – exploring the Milwaukee County DA’s high percentage of non prosecuted cases. If you would like us to feature a case from that or another county, email jim.wirightnow@gmail.com. We keep all of our sources strictly confidential.  Jetrin Rodthong , the accused shooter of a Milwaukee Police Officer, was arrested on Sept. 23, 2021, with two other men by Wauwatosa police. Police reports obtained exclusively by Wisconsin Right Now show that the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office refused to prosecute Rodthong and a second suspect after Tosa police say they found their car loaded with guns and drugs outside an auto parts store. Employees of the store believed that Rodthong, armed with a gun, and one of the other suspects, were "casing" the auto parts store. [caption id="attachment_47328" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] Wauwatosa police...