By: Paul Paikowski, retired Waukesha Police detective
Editor’s note: We first saw this post that Paikowski made on Facebook, and we decided to bring it to wider audience with his permission.
Before you vote April 1 in the State Supreme Court Race, you might want to consider this about Brad Schimel.
The year was 2011 or 2012. I experienced something so out of human character from Brad Schimel that I still find it hard to believe to this day.
He was the Waukesha District Attorney. I was just another Detective out of hundreds of Detectives and Officers countywide. It had been a long week in the Sensitive Crimes unit that week.
A Sunday Evening, like most, is nothing special, or so I thought. Brad Schimel is calling me out of the blue. He says, “Ski, how are you doing?” I ask if there’s trouble I don’t know about. He answers by wanting to make sure I am OK.
A family at home and a county of prosecutions to oversee, and he wants to know on Sunday evening if I’m OK. The next response I had was, “Yeah, why?” He filled me in, “Ski, I’ve been watching cases come across my desk all week, and you’ve dealt with three infant death investigations inside of four days.”
He wanted to make sure “I” was “OK”. No prosecutions lingering, no press cases, nothing sensational. If Brad Schimel could care about a random detective, handling random cases he signed up for, in his personal time, imagine how much more he would care about the real victims.
Look, if Brad can’t win this seat by 10 points or more, we as a State have really lost our way. Brad, you’ve more than earned this vote, and hopefully the votes of a few million more who care half as much as you do.
Note: Brad Schimel is the conservative candidate for Supreme Court. He is running against liberal Susan Crawford. After being DA and state Attorney General, Schimel went on to be a Waukesha County judge. The election is Tuesday. Schimel has been endorsed by sheriffs and law enforcement associations throughout Wisconsin.
