The Freeman - 04/15/2020 Page : A01 Copyright � 2020 Conley Group. All rights reserved 04/15/2020 April 15, 2020 3:06 pm (GMT +5:00) Powered by TECNAVIA Copy Reduced to 88% from original to fit letter page Public info officer discusses difficulties posed by Safer at Home By Nikki Brahm [email protected]262-513-2651 WAUKESHA — Waukesha County Commu- nications Center dispatchers said they have seen 33.8% more calls about domestic vio- lence incidents during a time frame from March through April this year, with the Safer at Home Order in place, compared to last year, According to Public Information Officer Christine Bannister, from March 8 to April 8 of 2019, the center received calls for 68 domestic violence incidents. During this same time frame in 2020, there had been 91 domestic vio- lence incidents reported. The Safer at Home Order went into effect March 18. Bannister said despite the fact that there has been a 20% decrease in law enforcement related call volume, calls related to domestic violence still saw that 33.8% increase. Bannister said she believes the decrease in overall call volume is due to people staying at home. The decision to make this comparison in statistics came from noticing an increase in calls related to domestic violence. “It’s definitely concerning,” she said. “We want to make sure people are safe. We want to make sure that we’re here and available, if someone is suffering from domestic violence, or if there is a volatile relationship, that they are able to still seek help and … that we’re here. We’re still working, our staff are essen- tial, we’re manning the phones 24/7.” Victims of domestic violence can contact 911 at any time with any emergency. “We also have an option for text 911, so we encourage people to use that if there is a sit- uation where they’re not safe, and they can’t talk maybe or speak. They can text 911 and put a message that they need help.” Dispatchers are able to text back and forth with the victim. Bannister said the Wauke- sha County Communications Center is one of the few centers that have this option, which is a great resource for them. WAUKESHA COUNTY Domestic violence calls increase Need help? ■ Victims are encouraged to dial 911 if they are in an emergency. The Women’s Center in Waukesha’s 24-hour hotline is 262-542-3828. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233. See VIOLENCE, PAGE 6A
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Chris Bauman holds up her sign while protesting Gov.Tony Evers’ closure of the Kettle Moraine State Forest — Lapham Peak Unit, amongother parks.
WAUKESHA — Waukesha County Commu-nications Center dispatchers said they haveseen 33.8% more calls about domestic vio-lence incidents during a time frame fromMarch through April this year, with the Saferat Home Order inplace, compared tolast year,
According to PublicInformation OfficerChristine Bannister,from March 8 to April8 of 2019, the centerreceived calls for 68domestic violenceincidents. Duringthis same time framein 2020, there hadbeen 91 domestic vio-lence incidentsreported.
The Safer at HomeOrder went into effect March 18.
Bannister said despite the fact that therehas been a 20% decrease in law enforcementrelated call volume, calls related to domesticviolence still saw that 33.8% increase.
Bannister said she believes the decrease inoverall call volume is due to people staying athome.
The decision to make this comparison instatistics came from noticing an increase incalls related to domestic violence.
“It’s definitely concerning,” she said. “Wewant to make sure people are safe. We wantto make sure that we’re here and available, ifsomeone is suffering from domestic violence,or if there is a volatile relationship, that theyare able to still seek help and … that we’rehere. We’re still working, our staff are essen-tial, we’re manning the phones 24/7.”
Victims of domestic violence can contact911 at any time with any emergency.
“We also have an option for text 911, so weencourage people to use that if there is a sit-uation where they’re not safe, and they can’ttalk maybe or speak. They can text 911 andput a message that they need help.”
Dispatchers are able to text back and forthwith the victim. Bannister said the Wauke-sha County Communications Center is one ofthe few centers that have this option, whichis a great resource for them.
WAUKESHA COUNTY
Domesticviolence calls
increase
Need help?■ Victims are encouraged to dial 911 if they are in an emergency.The Women’s Center in Waukesha’s 24-hour hotline is 262-542-3828.The National DomesticViolence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233.
TOWN OF DELAFIELD
Area residents protest Evers’ park closures
Protester: ‘He is treating us like school children’
TOWN OF DELAFIELD — Agroup of people gathered out-side the Kettle Moraine StateForest — Lapham Peak UnitTuesday morning to expresstheir discontent with Gov.Tony Evers’ choice to closeover 40 of the state’s parks,forests and recreational areas.
Evers made the decision toclose the parks on April 8“due to unprecedentedcrowds, litter, vandalism andthe need to protect the healthand safety of our visitors andstaff,” a release states.
“Unfortunately, growing dif-ficulty with ensuring social
distancing compliance, dwin-dling cleaning supplies andmounting trash are some ofthe challenges faced by ourstate parks staff,” Evers saidin the release.
Coincidentally, while peoplewere protesting in the drive-way to Lapham Peak, socialdistancing was forgotten aspeople huddled in crowds totalk about their feelings onthe order.
Scott Bauman, one of theprotesters, said he thinksEvers’ choice to close theparks was wrong because peo-ple would be out in the openwhen in the parks.
He added that it only tookone comment on MarkBelling’s show to get people to
come out. “I think the people have a
lot of pent-up feelings aboutthe [order] and it took just onelittle mention for people tocome out,” Bauman said. “Ithink people are frustratedwith the situation.
“When I heard Belling talkabout it on the radio I told mywife we would be out here.”
Some of those people whowere protesting decided tobypass the Department ofNatural Resources wardens
and incur a fine of around$180.
Jill Neils was one of thosepeople.
“I said ‘You know what,guys, $180 is the cost of a real-ly good night out and we’renot allowed to go out any-more, so let’s spend $180 towalk through our park,’”Neils said.
Neils believes Evers is over-reaching with his order.
“It’s about our libertiesbeing squashed, but this isone of the things that should-n’t be taken away,” Neils said.“I understand the distancingand hand washing, butenough is enough.”
MADISON — Many busi-nesses and consumers areitching to get back to workand a state of free commerce,but nobody is quite surewhen that will be. With Gov.Tony Evers’ “Safer at Home”
order currently scheduled toend on April 24, somestatewide organizations andseveral local chambers arehoping to see the transitionto normal begin then, albeitwith proper COVID-19 safetyprecautions.
In a letter to Evers, thestate’s largest businessgroup, Wisconsin Manufac-
turers & Com-merce, alongwith 18 others t a t e w i d ebusiness asso-ciations and33 local cham-bers of com-merce, urgedthe governor
to begin the careful prepara-tion and planning that “overtime, phases our economyback to an operational level
that exists prior to any socialdistancing requirements.”
“Restarting our economywill not happen overnight,and it likely will not be all atonce,” WMC President &CEO Kurt Bauer said in astatement. “That is why thebusiness community andGov. Evers need to worktogether on a plan that deter-mines what industries andwhat areas of Wisconsin canopen safely, along with a
timeline.”WMC and other organiza-
tions are hoping to see somecommunication from the gov-ernor’s office so that busi-nesses will get a heads up onwhen things might reopen,and can plan accordingly.
Some of the local chamberssigned on to the letter includethose of Cedarburg, WestBend, Hartland, Jefferson,Muskego, New Berlin, andWauwatosa.
“I can’t speak for everybusiness in Cedarburg but Iknow several of our mem-bers are interested in know-ing what the future brings
Business groups ask Evers for plan on reopening economy
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Bond posted for teencharged in young boy’sdeath
MANITOWOC (AP) — A teenagercharged with reckless homicide inthe death of a 7-year-old boy inManitowoc County is out of jailafter posting a $100,000 cash bond.
Damian Hauschultz, 16, ischarged in connection with thedeath of Ethan Hauschultz.
The boy was beaten, forced tocarry a 44-pound-log, and buried inthe snow in April 2018, according toprosecutors.
WLUK-TV reports Hauschultzreturns to court July 1 for a hearingon a motion to suppress statementsHauschultz made to police.
Manitowoc County Judge JerilynDietz recently denied a defensemotion to reduce the bond from$100,000 cash. She had previouslylowered it from $150,000 cash.
Two other relatives are alsocharged in the case. TimothyHauschultz, Damian’s father andthe great-uncle of Ethan, faces eight
charges, six of which are felonies.McKeever-Hauschultz, TimothyHauschultz’s wife, is charged withfailing to prevent bodily harm andone other charge.
Turnout hits 34% for Wisconsin Supreme Court race
MADISON (AP) — Turnout inWisconsin’s chaotic spring electionheld during a pandemic last weektopped 34% of the voting-age popu-lation, the highest for an April votesince 2016 when there were twocompetitive presidential primaryraces on the ballot.
This year’s 34% turnout is higherthan 2019, when turnout was 27% inan election where the SupremeCourt race was the biggest draw.
Of the more than 1.5 million peo-ple who voted, about 71% of ballotswere cast absentee, based on pre-liminary numbers of ballotsreturned. Last year, just 12% oftotal ballots cast were absentee.
Liberal Dane County CircuitJudge Jill Karofsky defeated incum-bent conservative Supreme Court
Justice Dan Kelly by nearly 11points. It marked the first timesince 2008 that an incumbent justicewas defeated. In both cases, LouisButler in 2008 and Kelly this year,they had been appointed to theirseats and lost the first time theywere on the ballot.
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Deaths hit 45 at Virginia carehome called ‘virus’s dream’
Canterbury Rehabilitation &Healthcare Center, which has sur-passed the most recent death tollof 43 in the outbreak at the LifeCare Center in suburban Seattle,is the kind of facility that’s par-ticularly vulnerable to a coron-avirus wildfire that has ragedthrough the nation’s frail, elderlylong-term care populations,claiming more than 4,000 lives.
Nearly all of Canterbury’s resi-dents rely on Medicaid fundingfor care of health problems that inmany cases were the product of alifetime of poverty. It lacks theamenities and space to keep peo-ple apart. And it lacks the pay to
hire and keep enough staff.‘‘A publicly funded nursing
home is a virus’s dream,’’ said Dr.James Wright, Canterbury’s med-ical director. ‘‘It is the best placefor a virus to be. People are closetogether. Their immune systemsare compromised. It is just a tin-derbox for that match.’’
Studies have shown nursinghomes heavily dependent on Med-icaid for revenue have fewer nurs-es and other staff per patient thanaverage and lower quality of careoverall. And some off the biggestoutbreaks so far have been athomes tied closely to the govern-ment payment program, includ-ing ones in Wayne, West Virginia,and the Crown Heights section ofBrooklyn in New York.
Health care workers are 10%-20% of U.S.coronavirus cases
NEW YORK (AP) — Between10% and 20% of U.S. coronaviruscases are health care workers,though they tended to be hospital-ized at lower rates than other
patients, officials reported Tues-day.
The Centers for Disease Controland Prevention reported the firstnational data on how the pandem-ic is hitting doctors, nurses andother health care professionals.
The data is important new infor-mation but not necessarily sur-prising, said Dr. Anne Schuchat,who is running the federal agen-cy’s response to the outbreak.Medical staff have also been hithard in other countries, includingItaly and Spain.
As of the middle of last week,the CDC had reports of more than315,000 cases in the U.S. The newreport focused on about 49,000 forwhich researchers had data onwhether or not they worked inhealth care. About 9,300, or 19%,of them were medical profession-als. That included 27 who died.
Compared with U.S. cases over-all, larger proportions of diag-nosed health care workers werewomen, were white, and wereyoung or middle-aged adults.That’s consistent with the demo-graphics of who works in healthcare, researchers said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three poten-tial COVID-19 vaccines are makingfast progress in early-stage testing involunteers in China and the U.S., butit’s still a long road to prove if they’llreally work.
China’s CanSino Biologics isbeginning the second phase of test-ing its vaccine candidate, China’sMinistry of Science and Technologysaid Tuesday.
In the U.S., a shot made by theNational Institutes of Health andModerna Inc. isn’t far behind. Thefirst person to receive that experi-mental vaccine last month returnedto a Seattle clinic Tuesday for a sec-ond dose.
NIH infectious disease chief Dr.Anthony Fauci told The AssociatedPress there are ‘‘no red flags’’ so farand he hoped the next, larger phaseof testing could begin around June.
A third candidate, from InovioPharmaceuticals, began givingexperimental shots for first-step safe-ty testing last week in the U.S. andhopes to expand its studies to China.
Initial tests focus on safety, andresearchers in both countries aretrying out different doses of differ-ent types of shots. But moving intothe second phase is a critical stepthat allows vaccines to be tested inmany more people to look for signsthat they protect against infection.
Associated Press
Jennifer Haller, the first patient toreceive a vaccine shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of apotential vaccine for COVID-19, thedisease caused by the new coron-avirus, poses for a portrait beforegoing into the Kaiser PermanenteWashington Health Research Insti-tute to get her second dose of thevaccine Tuesday in Seattle.
Search for a COVID-19 vaccine heats up in China and U.S.
ViolenceFrom Page 1A
ResourcesThe Waukesha Women’s
Center, 505 N. East Ave.,Waukesha, provides a widerange of resources for individ-uals impacted by domestic vio-lence in the county.
The center has been antici-pating a spike in domestic vio-lence since the Safer at Homeorder was put in place.
To continue to provideresources in the county duringthe coronavirus pandemic,they have made changes to theresources they provide. Theystill provide housing for vic-tims in need and have movedall of their counseling servicesto virtual programs.
Angela Mancuso, executivedirector of the WaukeshaWomen’s Center, said theyhave also received about a 15%increase in calls to county lawenforcement from Marchthrough April.
“We know that it’s harder forvictims that are trapped withtheir abusers because of theSafer at Home initiatives,”Mancuso said. “We know thatit’s harder for people to call.”
Mancuso said this con-tributes to why it is hard forthem to see the actual increaseor spike in domestic violence— because of the inability forvictims to get away from theirabuser.
Victims are encouraged toreach out to 911, the Women’sCenter or national resourcesfor help.
ProtestFrom Page 1A
Neils said while she waswalking through the parkshe saw people picking up lit-ter along the way.
“It could be a campaignand (Evers could) say it in hisaddresses ‘go out and enjoythe parks, but to take garbagebags and pick up trash whenthey see it. This is an oppor-tunity for the residents togive back.’ But instead he istreating us like school chil-dren and taking it away fromeverybody,” Neils said.
Jim Watson was also one ofthose who incurred a possi-ble citation to go intoLapham Peak and walk up tothe tower and back.
“I got my ticket and I gotmy walk so I am happy,” Wat-son said. “I didn’t have to payit yet, but I think I will.”
The Wisconsin Departmentof Natural Resources chosenot to comment on theprotest and calls and emailsinto Evers’ office were notreturned before press time.
EconomyFrom Page 1A
for them,” said Maggie Dobson,Cedarburg Chamber of Com-merce executive director. “Wecertainly don’t want to do any-thing before it’s healthy andbefore it’s safe to do (but wealso want to) support thesmall businesses who have nothad the opportunity to workon a regular basis.”
New Berlin Chamber ofCommerce Executive DirectorEd Holpfer said it’s importantto understand reopening abusiness isn’t like flipping aswitch. “You’ve got to call theemployees back, some employ-ees may have moved on; ifyou’re an operation with per-ishable goods you may have torestock,” he said. Holpfer saidthe chamber may send out asurvey to membership busi-nesses to gauge what peopleare looking for.
West Bend Area Chamber ofCommerce Executive DirectorCraig Farrell said restaurantsin particular have ben hithard and have been “runningon vapors.” He said somerestaurants in West Bend have“lost 90% (of) their normalrevenue. What business,regardless of how well youplan, is prepared for that?”
Muskego Chamber of Com-merce Executive Director
Krisann Durnford emphasizedthe letter and the organiza-tions associated are not call-ing for a reopening of theeconomy before it’s safe. “Thisis not denying any safety mea-sures,” she said. “It is aboutgetting a plan in place so ourbusinesses can open and getback to business.”
On Tuesday, Evers signaledthat although he hasn’t yetmade a decision about extend-ing Safer at Home, it may beanother month before hestarts relaxing social distanc-ing mandates.
He said he wants to be suremore coronavirus testing isavailable, there’s better track-ing of sick people and there’senough personal protectivegear for health care workersbefore he’ll consider allowingbusinesses to open and easingsocial distancing restrictions.
He added that it’s unlikelyschools will reopen but he has-n’t made a final decision yet.
‘‘I would fully expect anothercouple of weeks, a month,before we are in a position toactually say we’re ahead of thecurve here, and after that wecan start thinking about howwe can relax things,’’ Everstold KSTP-TV.
The virus had killed 170 peo-ple in Wisconsin and infectedmore than 3,500 as of Tuesday.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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