A View from the Interior: Policing the Protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol

In 2011, recently elected Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker introduced his version of "dropping a bomb" with the Budget Repair Bill. A View from the Interior covers the thirty tense days following his announcement that would put an end to public unions in Wisconsin. One and a half million people descended upon the Capitol building in Madison, jamming its hallways and flooding its grounds to protest. Author Susan Riseling, Chief of Police, University of Wisconsin-Madison, offers a compelling insider's perspective of those protests, based on hundreds of pages of actual police reports and other documents from those history-making days.

Associate Vice Chancellor/Chief Susan Riseling currently leads the Police Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a past president of the Dane County Chiefs of Police, the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, and the first woman and first University Police Chief to hold that particular position. She is also a past president of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives. In addition, Chief  Riseling is a former Vice President at Large of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the world s largest police organization with over 20,000 members from over 100 countries. In August 2003, Chief Riseling was awarded the Motorola NAWLEE (National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives) Law Enforcement Executive of the year.