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Anti-Police Gov. Evers Signs 'Reform Measures' Based on Hoax

We reject the notion - adopted by Evers and Republicans in the state Legislature - that police need major reforming. This hoax narrative falsely presumes that there's a systemic problem with our Police Departments. There's not. There have been only 3 fatal police shootings in Wisconsin this year, all of armed people, none black. Meanwhile, there are many black homicide victims, but the governor isn't acting on that. When he signed a raft of window-dressing, do-nothing "police reform" measures this week, Gov. Tony Evers said this: "The people of Wisconsin are demanding systemic changes and reform in our state." Wrong. No, they're not. At least not the kind of "reform" he's talking about. This was an attempt to pander to BLM that will do nothing to improve black lives. If Evers really cared about black lives, he'd focus on the climate that produces black-on-black homicide in the City of Milwaukee and elsewhere, maybe heading