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About
the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office:
The
Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office is the largest Sheriff's Office in the State of Wisconsin. Founded in 1835, it is also the
oldest Sheriff's Office in the State. The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office
is organized into four bureaus: Administration; Detention: Patrol Services; Special Operations; and, Emergency Management. The Administration Bureau contains: Community Relations, Fiscal Affairs, Internal
Affairs Division and Open Records
The
Detention Bureau contains: Cashiers, Inmate Programs, Jail Records and Visiting. The
Police Services Bureau contains: Airport Division, Criminal Investigation Division, Drug Enforcement, Explosive Ordnance Disposal,
Patrol Division and Special Weapons and Tactics Division. Special Weapons and
Tactics (S.W.A.T.) deputies are assigned to regular duties throughout the Sheriff's Office and respond when needed. S.W.A.T.
operations are divided into five specialized areas – a Command Post, Tactical Teams, Hostage Negotiators, K-9 Officer
and Equipment Specialists.
The Special Operations
Bureau of the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office contains the Central Records and Process Division, Communications Division,
Courts Division, Department of Transportation Liaison and the Training Division. The Emergency Management Bureau primarily
disseminates information and conducts planning and training.
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During his over twenty-eight year
law enforcement career, Detective Joseph L. Butts, worked for the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office (Wisconsin). Joseph
Butts worked assignments in the courts, uniformed patrol, the bicycle detail and the detective bureau. He was the first African American Sheriff’s Deputy to be assigned regular patrol duties in several
south suburban communities of Milwaukee county; and, the first African American deputy sheriff to be assigned undercover drug
assignments in Milwaukee County suburban communities. Moreover, during his career,
Joseph L. Butts worked Internal Investigation, the Organized Crime Unit and investigated crimes throughout Milwaukee county.
Detective Joseph L. Butts wrote a book about his experiences, Crime and Other Critical Social Ills: As Seen from Behind the Badge.
According to one reader of Crime and Other Critical Social Ills: As Seen
from Behind the Badge, “This book shows how things can happen at a moments notice and how individuals react
or don't react. This book could pertain to any Law Enforcement Department in the country. Being a member of the same department
that Det. (retired) Butts was in, and reading his book, makes me understand crime, justice and the department better. I just
wish I knew him personally.”
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