Downtown Building Hit With Anti-Police Graffiti Message

When a graffiti message that said “R.I.P. W.P.D.” was sprayed in red paint to the side of Vicky Hekker’s building at the corner of Maple Avenue and West Main Street, there were two possibilities about where she thinks it could have come from.

First, there are the speeders and Hekkers said she has no problems with the Waukesha Police Department officers sitting in the parking lot to run radar. People sometimes travel 50 to 60 mph by the time they reach the west end of downtown Waukesha.

“The cars do come down the street pretty fast,” Hekkers said.

Another option could be some people who live in the downtown Waukesha area who recently got into a “dilemma” with police, Hekker said. Hekkers was not the one to call the police in a recent incident, she said.

“I think it was probably done in some sort of retaliation,” she said.

Hekkers believes they will be able to clean the vandalism up as soon as they are able to move a parked car that belongs to a tenant.

As for the message that targets the Waukesha Police Department? Officers were called to the scene early Friday morning and took a police report. Hekkers said the incident was caught on video by a neighboring business.

Waukesha Police Capt. Dennis Angle said the police department is investigating the vandalism case the best they can.

“We are aware of this and are concerned about the statement that is written on there,” Angle said.