Ald. Isadore Knox Jr.: ‘We do have taxpayers we have to answer to, too.’
In what’s becoming an annual tradition, Madison’s city council passed a $453 million operating budget Tuesday evening alongside heated debate on whether to continue funding for the city’s embattled police oversight mechanism.
A last-minute floor amendment sponsored by Alds. Barbara Harrington-McKinney, Isadore Knox Jr. and Joann Pritchett would have removed the Office of the Independent Police Monitor’s $405,299 annual budget and transferred that funding to the Madison Police Department “to fund staffing capacity needs related to implementing body worn cameras.” The amendment would authorize up to five full-time positions in the police department to work on the implementation of body-worn cameras…