Police were called to the alternative program at Lapham Elementary after a teacher tried to break up a fight on Tuesday. She fell, was kicked in the head, and taken away in an ambulance.
The Madison police Web site includes no incident report on the event.
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Dive into said
Why doesn’t the Madison police department show this incident on its Web page?
I just got off the phone with Joel DeSpain, spokesperson for the Madison Police Department.
He expalined that he posts incident reports when they come to his attentioin at daily detective briefings. This one didn’t come up, so he wasn’t aware of it.
Additionally, he doesn’t post minor incidents, which occur almost daily he said.
I asked whether the MMSD and police department have an agreement not to report incidents. He said no and that he’s never been cautioned to downplay school incidents.