Milwaukee Alderman Bob Bauman Putting Our Safety at Risk

Alderman Bob Bauman is the man in charge of issuing licenses for Cab Drivers.  He chairs the Public Works Committee and he thinks they are doing a good Job.

Really?

TMJ4 took a look and it doesn't appear Alderman Bauman cares much about our safety.

TMJ4:

MILWAUKEE - The next time you are in the back seat of a city-licensed taxi, you could be sharing a ride with a convicted felon or a driver with a checkered history behind the wheel.

For more than a year, the I-Team has been keeping track as a city committee responsible for weeding out troubled taxi drivers approved all but one person to appear before them.

 

Alderman Bob Bauman chairs the Public Works Committee, and believes it has been doing the job well.

 

"Are we vetting people? Absolutely," Bauman said.

 

Bauman's committee comes into play when Milwaukee Police object to a public passenger license application.

 

Those objections happen for a variety of reasons, including criminal violations or driving infractions.

 

In 2014, the I-Team watched as police raised objections to applications made by drunk drivers, sex offenders, even a man convicted of a felony fatal hit and run.

 

Of the 79 applications where police objected and the prospective driver appealed to the committee, the challenge was overruled and the license granted all but once.

 

"We look at the nature of the offense, we ask the applicant to explain the circumstances, we evaluate their credibility, and in most cases we do grant the license," Bauman said.

 

What this means is drunk drivers and sex offenders were all approved to drive a taxi in the city of Milwaukee.