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SECRET POLICE EXPOSED by Kaleidoscope Staff Trial MPD: RUNV PEOPLE DESTROYED kAUidoscopE |g|| milwaukee, Wisconsin member: underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) liberation news service (l.n.s.) March 20-Apr. 2, 1970 Vol. 3, No. 2 (#54)-25< RIPPING OFF THE BREIER PATCH SECRET POLICE EXPOSED by Kaleidoscope Staff trial. Yet Breier even refuses It is a strange and dangerous to reveal how many men are in time when publishing the official the special squad (47), or who roster of an entire police depart­ they are (see page 12). ment seems like a revolutionary Similar secrecy obscures the act. secret police methods of the in­ h is certainly a perilous action famous-Subversive Squad. What for an underground newspaper. is subversive about a peace de­ And in the light of recent repri­ monstration? Yet the plain­ sals by the people against the clothes men and detectives with pigs — police stations ripped off, cameras have photographed and cops killed and their parking lots. reported on every demonstration bombed— it is no wonder if this in the city. list makes them uneasy. Again we ask why? What crimes But such reprisals are directed are we suspected of? What use is at the racists and terrorists on made of these photos? What are the force, and the undercover these pigs being paid to do? secret police. Fewer innocent A third unit of Dictator Brei­ cops are injured in the bombing of er's Secret Police which an en­ a police station than innocent lightened community cannot tol­ spectators or peaceful march­ erate is the Vice Squad. Our ob­ ers are maimed and arrested in jection to narcotics laws as they an average big-city demonstra­ are presently enforced are de­ tion. tailed elsewhere in this issue. As the law and order freaks are Most of the laws the Vice Squad Avoiding Stoolies, Set-ups, Raids: fond of saying, only the guilty enforce concern the class of have anything to fear. "crimes without victims," such Besides, we have always been as prostitution and the use of told that police are our friends. marijuana. In any case, their Why then shouldn't we know who actions are arbitrary, hypocriti­ our friends are and where they cal and a violation of the prin­ Narc Talks, Turns In Pigs live? ciple of the separation of church Police are, after all, public and state. That is, they deal not by Mike Zetteler their homes. my ruddy neck, and I've paid the servants in every sense: by their with crime but with sinfullness Maybe you've been dealing so­ Because you had been set up price. What else can I do? See, own definition, and because their as defined by legislation. me dope — grass, hash or smack that night by thenar cs, and fucked I went out to save my hide, and I pay comes from the pockets of But one man's immorality is — in the bohemian labyrinth ar­ over by a friend who became ^ picked a few scapegoats that no every taxpayer. another man's pleasure, and we ound Milwaukee's Brady Street narc to save his own ass. The one liked anyway. To be responsible to the public, reserve for ourselves the right or out in the posher neighbor-' next stop is jail, where you may "Most of 'em were dealing its servants must be available to determine what we can do hood near Wauwatosa's high even start thinking about how you smack, and I've got no use for to the public. But this is not the with our bodies, or what we can schools. can turn in your own friends to that at all — it's a bad scene. Be­ thinking of the Milwaukee Police read. You got stoned with a buddy, a save yourself. lieve me, they won't be missed. Department, under the reign of Because of the tendency of head you've known for a long The scenario is accurate, ac­ The other three or four were pure Chief Harold Breier. All police police administrators towards time, and sometime during the cording to a Milwaukee dealer who assholes, one of'em ripped off my Should be secret police, seems to -secrecy, and the complicity of night when you're both pretty went through it. He turned into an friend for three thousand dollars. be Breier's rule. the power structure and media much wiped out he mentions he •informer and narc for what he He had it coming. In his paranoia he has consist­ barons — who realize the secret wants to score an ounce from thinks are good reasons, and sent "What happened to them ain't ently refused to cooperate with police primarily oppress the so­ you. — by his own count — almost nothin' to what I've gone through anyone seeking any kind of infor­ cially and economically under­ Maybe he's been busted re­ 15 people to jail for dealing in in the last year and a half. But mation about "his" department. privileged— we are publishing cently, and he. tells you he wants -narcotics and forms of marijuana. I'm still walkin' the streets, even v Recently, the ACLU filed a suit this roster. to get back on his feet again. Though he doesn't want to be though a couple dudes said they to compel Breier to release in­ We feel it is the necessary Sure, it's groovy with you, and identified, for good reasons, he were going to kill me. formation concerning the Tacti­ first step in a campaign to make he says, "My partner's got the decided to tell me about it for "But if you're going to be a cal Squad. policemen responsible to all the ninety-five dollars, I gotta call Kaleidoscope readers. What he snake you gotta be good at it, and Breier is, of course, contesting communities they are supposed to him." In a little while this dude had to say may save many peo­ I was the best they had." the suit, though he will probably serve, and to return to the people comes to the door and comes in ple from going to jail. It also Hank gestured in the direction lose. In the meantime, he refuses their power to define and control to pick up the ounce of hash. exposes the sick, corrupting and of the telephone. "And I've got the to say anything about the Tac police functions in their commun­ He doesn't say much — you iplainly ineffective methods used Squad other than that "they by cops to give the appearance of power, and I don't scare, my i> ities. ask him if he wants to try some ««$st." ^ For performing a similar ser­ of this great shit and he says dealing with the so-called drug friend. I stopped worrying a long This Tac Squad, led by Sgt. vice, the L.A. Free Press was no, he's got too much to do, he problem. time ago." j Frank Miller, was responsible recently hit with a multi-million can't get stoned now. So he sco­ His reasons for talking are The morality of what he did does for the Milwaukee Police Riot dollar invasion of privacy suit, res the ounce and splits. varied. bother Hank, though, and he brings which followed the Chicago 8 and a felony charge of "receiv­ Maybe you would have been For one thing, though I'm not it up again later: "They're all ing stolen property." While there more careful, but your buddy even going to describe him, many better off in jail than where they, are some similarities between assured you that the guy was of the people that count know who were." the FREEP case and this issue of all right, he'd known him for he is. They are the people whose I suggest that maybe they would index Kaleidoscope, there are also im­ a long time. Still, you're coming lives he helped mess up, and have liked to make that decision High Schools... 3 portant distinctions. down a little, you've got a funny their friends, and leaders in the themselves. "You talk about what The FREEP published the feeling, and you ask your buddy, hip community. you went through," I said. "What roster of the California Narcot­ a head you've known for years —. It's not giving away anything to do you think they're going thr­ Gay Lib 5 ics Bureau, a state agency, and or shit, you decide you're para­ say that he's into a legitimate ough?" in the provess exposed everyun- noid, and it's the next day you business now and does not want "Withdrawal symptoms," he dercover agent then working. ask: the hatred of that same commu­ responds casually. "Most of 'em Abortion Legal 3 Needless to say, the state of "Say, man, that was a narc nity. By taking a real chance on were smack freaks. And there California was pissed. Our list, I sold to last nighty wasn't it?" bringing down the vindictiveness ain't one of *em that wouldn't on the other hand, is simply the Your buddy — and after all, of the Milwaukee cops, he may have done what I did, and they know Secret Police 12-13 entire roster of the Milwaukee he just got stoned with you- so help someone who might other­ it." Police Department, and does not you know you can trust him — wise be set up the way he was. Apparently caring what I think single out narcotics agents. says no, the dude was all right.
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