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10/15/2026

Another Milwaukee police officer injured. Another family receiving the call every police family fears.

Yesterday, a fleeing suspect tried to take an officer’s gun, then grabbed a fi***rm magazine from the officer’s vest and repeatedly beat him with it, causing serious injuries.

We should all be outraged. Here’s something else to be outraged about.

Just last year, in 2025, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Wall - who presides over felony court - stayed this suspect’s sentence of five years in prison followed by five years of extended supervision. Now, an officer is recovering from a brutal attack this same man was arrested for.

Our officer and his family deserve more than sympathy. They deserve answers. So does this community. Why was that prison sentence stayed, and how was public safety served by that decision?

Our officers accept the risks of this profession. That does not mean this community should accept violence against them as simply part of the job. No officer should have to be beaten while trying to protect the public from dangerous behavior.

The Milwaukee Police Association calls on elected officials, neighborhood leaders and residents to condemn this violence clearly and publicly. Reinforce that fleeing, fighting and trying to disarm a police officer can have devastating consequences. Demand that those who commit these attacks be held accountable.

Every resident deserves a safe neighborhood. The officers working to provide that safety deserve a community that stands with them when they are attacked. They deserve a justice system that stands with them.

Our officer should be recovering from a day’s work, not from a violent attack. We are outraged that he and his family are paying the price for someone else’s decision to fight the police. Milwaukee cannot allow the next injured officer to become just another headline.

Alex Ayala
President, Milwaukee Police Association

Statement from Milwaukee Police Association President Alexander AyalaThe Milwaukee Police Association is aware of a vide...
10/13/2026

Statement from Milwaukee Police Association President Alexander Ayala

The Milwaukee Police Association is aware of a video circulating publicly that shows an officer striking a man during an arrest. To understand the officer’s actions, it is essential to understand the danger officers were confronting at that moment.

Based on information provided to the Milwaukee Police Association, officers knew the man had a concealed fi***rm in the front pocket of his sweatshirt. He was not complying with commands, continued to struggle with officers, and was not under control. Although he had been handcuffed, the fi***rm remained close enough to pose a threat to the officers attempting to restrain him.

Handcuffs alone do not mean a person is under control or that a fi***rm is beyond reach. Officers were facing a situation in which access to that gun could have had deadly consequences.

The officer used controlled strikes, a defense and arrest tactic taught in the police academy, to obtain compliance. The strikes stopped immediately once compliance was achieved.

The Milwaukee Police Association supports this officer. He used his training to bring a dangerous situation under control and stopped using that force when it was no longer needed.

Milwaukee police officers need adequate staffing and a justice system that puts public safety first.MPA President Alexan...
10/12/2026

Milwaukee police officers need adequate staffing and a justice system that puts public safety first.

MPA President Alexander Ayala and Vice-President Joel Moeller brought those priorities to a law enforcement roundtable with gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany on Friday.

President Ayala emphasized the critical need to recruit and retain police officers, and raised concerns about conditional release decisions and commutations that can put officers and the community at risk.

Our members see the consequences of staffing shortages and court decisions firsthand. The MPA will continue making sure their experience informs the decisions that affect their safety and yours.

The group also discussed Chapter 51 emergency detentions, prosecutor shortages, victim notifications, ma*****na, and ALPR technologies.

The best conversations between a community and its police do not happen on a call. They happen over coffee.That is the e...
10/07/2026

The best conversations between a community and its police do not happen on a call. They happen over coffee.

That is the entire premise of National Coffee with a Cop Day, held on the first Wednesday of October, which this year falls on October 7. It started in Hawthorne, California in 2011 and has since been held in all 50 states and in countries around the world.

No speeches. No agenda. Just a chance to ask the questions that never fit into a traffic stop or a report: what the new sign on the corner means, how to report something without calling 911, what the job is actually like.

The members of this association are neighbors first. Most of them will tell you the coffee is the easy part. The listening is what matters.

Never Forgotten. 🖤💙Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends, and fellow law enforcement officers of Wiscons...
10/03/2026

Never Forgotten. 🖤💙

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends, and fellow law enforcement officers of Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper Bradley Ritger.

We honor his service, his sacrifice, and his commitment to protecting the people of Wisconsin.

Rest in peace, Trooper Ritger. End of Watch: October 2, 2026.

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?The Milwaukee Police Association is outraged by today’s decision by Milwaukee County Circuit Court ...
10/01/2026

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

The Milwaukee Police Association is outraged by today’s decision by Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Nidhi Kashyap finding Darreon Parker-Bell a candidate for conditional release.

Let’s remember exactly why Parker-Bell is in state custody.

On February 25, 2022, Parker-Bell walked into Milwaukee Police District 5 in the middle of the afternoon, pulled out a semiautomatic handgun and opened fire.

There were civilians in the lobby. There were police employees behind the counter. One of his bullets went through the partition just inches from an officer’s head.

When an officer returned fire, Parker-Bell fled the station while still armed. When officers confronted him outside and repeatedly ordered him to drop his gun, he did not. He ultimately pointed the weapon toward officers before police shot and stopped him.

This was not a close call. It was a miracle that no police officer or innocent person inside District 5 was killed.

Parker-Bell was ultimately found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or defect and, in June 2023, was committed to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for 30 years.

That was barely three years ago.

And today, Judge Kashyap determined that he is a candidate for conditional release and ordered the state to prepare a plan for that release.

The members of the Milwaukee Police Association have a simple question:

How can someone who walked into a police station and opened fire, endangering officers and innocent citizens, already be considered for release back into the community after three years?

Our officers remember February 25, 2022, and the people who were inside District 5 that afternoon remember it. They should not have to wonder how someone committed to state custody for 30 years after such an extraordinarily violent act can be considered for conditional release just a few years later.

Mental illness deserves treatment. Public safety also matters.

The Milwaukee Police Association strongly opposes the conditional release of Darreon Parker-Bell and will be watching closely as the Department of Health Services develops the release plan ordered by the court.

Our officers put their lives on the line to stop Parker-Bell that day.

They, and the public they protected, deserve better than this.

Milwaukee Police Association President Alexander Ayala

Here is the link to the YouTube video of the incident which begins at 3:06. 
https://youtu.be/AKo_zvw4Ed0?is=5uUjkhShG3S1afvD

George Vaughn Seibold was 23 years old, an aviator, and he was killed over France in 1918. His remains were never identi...
09/27/2026

George Vaughn Seibold was 23 years old, an aviator, and he was killed over France in 1918. His remains were never identified.

His mother, Grace Darling Seibold, spent the war visiting wounded servicemen in Washington hospitals, looking for her son among them and caring for the ones she found. She never got a grave to visit. What she did instead was find other mothers in the same position and refuse to let them sit alone with it.

On June 4, 1928, twenty five of those mothers met in Washington and founded American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. Congress granted the organization a federal charter in 1984. It is still operating today.

Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day is observed on the last Sunday in September, this year on the 27th. Congress set the date in 1936, and the President is asked each year to call on Americans to fly the flag in recognition.

A hundred and eight years after a telegram arrived at the Seibold house, the answer to it is still the one Grace found. You do not fix this for a family. You stay near them.

Share this post in their honor.

It does not get much clearer than this.Now that the Milwaukee Police Department has just released the body-worn camera v...
09/23/2026

It does not get much clearer than this.

Now that the Milwaukee Police Department has just released the body-worn camera video from the Officer-Involved shooting on Sept 8, 2026, the public can see what I saw.

The video shows Printis Smith fleeing with a handgun, disregarding repeated commands to get on the ground and struggling with an officer at point-blank range. The image below shows the gun in Smith’s hand and his finger on the trigger while the officer continues giving commands. As the video continues, you will see Smith pull the trigger.

The family’s attorney, B’Ivory LaMarr, publicly called this an “execution” even though he had not personally viewed the video.

The evidence now belongs to the public. It shows a Milwaukee police officer fighting for his life. This officer pursued an armed man, repeatedly gave him the opportunity to surrender and confronted an immediate deadly threat to protect the surrounding community. He demonstrated extraordinary courage, and we came frighteningly close to mourning another Milwaukee police officer.

Mr. LaMarr can now watch the same video as everyone else. We will wait to see whether he corrects the public record.

Watch the video here:
https://youtu.be/wlCxdWmI3Cc?is=cBi5xHbIqa7bPTjV

Alexander Ayala
President, Milwaukee Police Association

Last year, 231 missing Americans came home.That is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's fiscal year 2025 count. 165 f...
09/18/2026

Last year, 231 missing Americans came home.

That is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's fiscal year 2025 count. 165 from World War II, 58 from Korea, 8 from Vietnam. It was a record, and the first time since 2019 the agency exceeded the 200 identifications Congress asks of it.

It also barely moved the number. More than 80,000 Americans are still unaccounted for from past conflicts. Roughly 38,000 of them are assessed as recoverable. Most of the rest were lost at sea.

Those two facts sit together uncomfortably, and they should. The work is painstaking, it is slow, and it is still producing results eighty years after the fact. Somewhere last year, 231 families got a phone call they had stopped expecting.

Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day, observed every year on the third Friday in September by presidential proclamation.

The flag says You Are Not Forgotten. The 231 is the proof.

Share this post in their honor.

The law that created the United States Air Force was signed in the air.On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the Nat...
09/18/2026

The law that created the United States Air Force was signed in the air.

On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 aboard his presidential aircraft, a Douglas VC-54C nicknamed the Sacred Cow. It was the first plane ever built specifically to fly a president. The act took effect on September 18, 1947, and the Air Force became a separate branch of the armed forces.

That same day, Stuart Symington was sworn in as its first Secretary. Carl Spaatz became its first Chief of Staff. A service built entirely around flight got its founding signature at altitude, which is either a coincidence or the best one in American military history.

Seventy nine years later the Sacred Cow is preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and the motto has not changed.

Several members of this association served in that uniform before they served this community.

Tag an Airman, past or present, who should see this today.

Aim High. Fly, Fight, Win.

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