Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett doesn't seem to have won many converts over the City's handling of the Frank Jude beating case, which happened in 2004. The community is still smarting, and the group formed after the beating -- Justice for Jude, Justice for All -- has given a rapier report on Barrett and the cops.

Commenting on Barrett's recent appearance on local radio, the group writes, "Your answers were safe, and non-committing, you once again left the community thinking that your head is buried in the sand.

"Your stance on Milwaukee Police Department issues can only be construed as: You really do not care about the community; you really are afraid of the MPD; the only council you are taking regarding MPD issues are from MPD; you regard the community as being uniformed about MPD issues."

They asked the mayor to call for a federal investigation and assert himself over the Fire and Police Commission by firing members who are doing a poor job.

Ald. Joe Davis has not forgotten the Jude case, either. He's asked the U.S. Attorney General office to investigate whether Milwaukee Police Deputy Inspector Mary Hoerig violated the law when she instructed a key police witness to not include certain details of the chaotic crime scene in her report. Hoerig told former officer Nicole Belmore to include only elements of crimes of theft and obstruction in her report.

"No commanding officer of any law enforcement agency should give instructions to sworn personnel to omit valuable, credible and most important, truthful information in which a crime may have been committed, and in this case it has been proven that crimes were committed," Davis states in his letter to the Department of Justice.

Barrett announced last week he was replacing the executive director of the Fire and Police Commission with Bruce Tobin, a long-time assistant city attorney and TV star on Common Council Judiciary Committee meetings. His budget accounts for more police on the streets, in the schools and continues a police outreach through community-based organizations and neighborhood groups.

Revoked License: Milwaukee Attorney James Gedlen has been a bad, bad boy, according to a complaint. In a rare move, the state Supreme Court revoked the lawyer's license to practice law in the Badger State.

According to the complaint, Gedlen is accused of 28 counts of misconduct relating to his handling of probate cases. He stole $103,826.41 from various accounts he controlled as an estate attorney, according to the finding. The court found that Gedlen issued 69 unauthorized checks from trust accounts to himself and then spent the cash. On one count, Gedlen was accused of "conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation."

According to state computer court records, Gedlen has also been the defendant in several civil actions alleging he owes money. And as of Oct. 3 he has a warrant out for his arrest in Waukesha County after not appearing at several hearings in his divorce proceedings, a case that's gone on since January 2005.

Gedlen's forte appears to be estate cases, but he landed in the media once during a divorce case he was representing. Gedlen was representing the soon-to-be-ex-wife and during that 1991 case, the husband killed his estranged wife and children and then committed suicide.

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