Scott Schaut first quit a leadership position at the sheriff's office after The Badger Project requested documents on his job ...
A veteran of the City of Waukesha Police Department quit in 2023 after he was arrested for driving drunk and knocking down a ...
Thomas Dammer was fired a month after he tried to pay a man $40 when he backed his squad car into the man’s vehicle on the side of the road. The officer maintains a part-time position with the City of ...
A veteran of the City of Waukesha Police Department quit in 2023 after he was arrested for driving drunk and knocking down a light pole with his Jeep. The Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office hired him in ...
Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department fired Thomas Dammer after he caused a minor collision and didn’t immediately report it. He still works as a part-time police officer in Oconomowoc.
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One officer was accused by a supervisor of snoozing in his squad car while on duty. Another had multiple drunken run-ins with police, including after bar fights. A third repeatedly sent lewd photos to ...
The Badger Project filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Justice Thursday after it again refused to release a list of all certified law enforcement officers in the state. The suit was ...
Elections in Wisconsin are setting new spending records every year, but the U.S. Supreme Court appears set to allow even more money into political races across the country if it rules the way experts ...
Following the slide across the country, the total number of law enforcement officers in Wisconsin continues to decline to record lows. The number of officers in Wisconsin fell again to less than ...
Wandering officers — police and jailers who were fired or forced out from a previous job in law enforcement — have increased in Wisconsin by more than 50% since 2021, an investigation by The Badger ...