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Running Rebels shows value of keeping youths out of jail

Billy Spencer dumps jail uniforms and crime scene tape into a Dumpster on Tuesday as the Running Rebels say the city doesn’t need them when the program keeps youths out of jail.

Mike De Sisti


Milwaukee's Running Rebels says it has helped keep nearly 900 young people out of prison since 1998 who otherwise might have collectively served hundreds of thousands of days in state corrections facilities at taxpayer expense. »Read Full Article

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  1. I expect Sheriff Clarke to issue an insulting press release in 5...4...3...
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  2. How about educating people where these guys grow up about birth control and not depending on government programs for their existence. Teach them about the value of education, one in four young black male dropouts incarcerated or otherwise institutionalized on an average day. The dropout rate is driving the nation’s increasing prison population, and it’s a drag on America’s economic competitiveness. the statistics were worse for young African-American dropouts, whose unemployment rate last year was 69 percent, compared with 54 percent for whites and 47 percent for Hispanics. There is so much work that needs to be done to help people in urban areas become more productive citizens, where do you start, where are the leaders in the African American areas, stepping up.
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    • You cannot help them, its virtually impossible since the culture is morally bankrupt. These programs might help a few but you can count them on one hand. People that could make a difference do nothing, and many profit from the ongoing madness. Michelle believes a weight problems trump bullets. So, how do you fix 'stupid?'
    • Sorry, only enough funds to teach reading, writing, and artihmetic. Schools teach to the standardized tests (WKCE, etc.) because schools don't want to perform poorly on these tests, or they will get trashed by the state. Teachers know there is a need for these basic skills that students didn't learn at home; but, unfortunately, teachers have to teach to the standardized tests or risk losing their jobs because that is how teachers are evaluated these days.
    • Actually, MPS and other systems have been found to intentionally sabotage schools for the money, both when the school crashes, and when it is "revived." I believe Custer High was one of the prize examples. "Educator" Kathy Bonds...the former principal coincidentally married to School Board President Michael Bonds, was the Board's "Chainsaw Principal". Check it out in past issues of this daily.
  3. In a jail cell everything is provided from food, to clean sheets, to meds, to doctors appointments and housing. That is the first step to teaching them entitlements are easier. Convicts don't have to go in the snow to clean off the transport van, walk across ice in the parking lot to get to work or worry about remembering to buy groceries.

    Abele is correct. Programs like this need to expand.
  4. Let me see if I have this straight: The guy who pulled the armed robbery is now a teacher's aide.
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  5. This would be the equivalent of having a similar group, 'the runnin' rebels' in the segregated South. The group urges business owners to take down the segregationist signs and treat all races as you would treat yourself. Now, you might have some small successes; maybe a small bed and breakfast begins to accept all races, but you still have an overwhelmingly racist culture.

    The result is similar in any culture that has chosen to be anti-society and morally bankrupt. Its a little different in today's society since very very few were murdered in the South, today, there are many thousands murdered, and millions violently assaulted in a culture that has no moral compass and absolutely no resolve to change.

    It took the movement of non-violence and MLK to shame a society into living up to its promise, to live up to its highest ideals. Since the death of King it has only been about tearing society down. There is the incredible arrogance that embodies the race hustlers, they believe in a morally superior position (the delusion is massive) and in their self-righteous sanctimony only tear society down. They hold the majority society to God-like righteousness but hold their own race to absolutely nothing; less than nothing since pure rottenness can be leveraged and extorted in incredibly immoral ways.
  6. Replace Milwaukee WRAP program, and Milwaukee Juvenile Supervision with the Running Rebels. This organization is top provides support, guidance, and helps these individuals mature all while incorporating accountability into the program. They are an excellent resource .......
  7. Our young people need to realize they also fuel political division and the rise of the 1% through crime. Lets build more prisons lobby gets rich while our young people are doing life. You are building houses and buying cars for them with all this crime. $1000 an hour lawyers feeding you bologna in those cells.

    Build your dream. Teach Educate Advocate.
  8. Good job guys
  9. at $100k per inmate, I think they are living way to good. No clean sheets, one meal of bread and water, lower the heat and take out the air conditioning and make them work in the a chain gang environment and then maybe, some of the less dumb ones will get it....
  10. Great group! thank you for services!!!
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