His attorney Frank Gimbel has made no progress with city negotiating financial settlement. //end headline wrapper ?>Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales. File photo from the Milwaukee Police Department.
Former Milwaukee Police Chief
Alfonso Morales is asking a judge to force the city to immediately return him to his job.
Morales was removed from his post at the head of the Police Department in August and demoted to the rank of captain by the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission following months of turmoil amid racial justice protests and years of community distrust of officers. He later resigned.
Morales’ attorney,
Christopher Foley by not reinstating Morales as chief.
Former police chief files lawsuit to get job back in Milwaukee
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MILWAUKEE - Former Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, April 28 in the hopes of getting his job back.
The Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission demoted Morales to captain last August. He resigned after that.
A judge later ruled Morales demotion was illegal.
In the new court documents, Morales attorney said they tried to find out for months from the FPC when Morales would return to work as chief or if there would be a financial settlement. But Morales never got that answer.
Pre-policing days
Art Howell s nickname when he worked at McDonald s at 2100 Lathrop Avenue from 1978 to 1983 was literally Chief, an omen for the official role he would later hold with the Racine Police Department. He s shown posing in this photo, at far-left, in his McDonald s uniform next to his sisters Sindy Howell-Stewart and Vanessa Oliver. Submitted photo
April 1987: Investigating
Sporting a short afro typical of the times, Art Howell works with partner Dean Stanton in the early days of the Racine Police Department s gang-diversion unit. MARK HERTZBERG, The Journal Times
October 1995: Community
Late landlord George Goodwater, right, tried to order police officers, including then-Sgt. Art Howell, left, from his property at 1111 Geneva St. during a walking tour Friday that involved trying to improve Racine s neighborhoods and housing conditions.
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Group of former MPD employees sue former chief, city
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Group of former MPD employees sue former chief, city
A group of seven former Milwaukee Police Department employees filed a civil lawsuit against Alfonso Morales, the department s former chief, on Friday, Feb. 19.
MILWAUKEE - A group of seven former Milwaukee Police Department employees filed a civil lawsuit against Alfonso Morales, the department s former chief, on Friday, Feb. 19.
The group claims Morales abruptly and capriciously fired five of them and capriciously constructive fired the other on Feb. 22, 2019.
All seven plaintiffs, according to the lawsuit, were hired by the Milwaukee Police Department post-retirement as civilian police services specialist investigators (PSSI) between 2007 and 2016.