very common actually in NGI cases that a person will be evaluated after that first year. Reports will be drafted by examining psychologists, and then the judge will make a decision, so it actually is fairly common that people are released in a relatively reasonable fashion from the institution,  attorney Anthony Cotton said.

 It feels really fast. It feels really quick to a lot of people, including me. But at the same time, if the reports, I don't know what the reports said, but if the reports all conclude that he's no longer dangerous, the judge has an obligation to follow the law. I mean, we want judges to follow the law. The law says once a person is deemed not dangerous, if they are NGI, they are to be released. That's the law. So I'm assuming the judge followed the law, and we may disagree with it, but that's not a critique of the judge,  Cotton added.

 This cannot just go like this and let this individual get out. He's a menace to society,  the police union's Ayala said.

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 I don't know. You don't know if he stays on a straight and narrow. Maybe he will be fine. But generally speaking, I have never seen that,  Holmblad said.

The judge set a hearing for December 7, 2026, to discuss the conditional release plan.

After this police station shooting - bulletproof glass was installed at all seven police stations. The Milwaukee Police Foundation and the city paid for it.

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