Madison is a magnet for freeloaders of all kinds. They welcome those who are illegals, welfare recipients, the just plain lazy, and gangs are drawn there because it’s easier to be a hoodlum there than in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Madison has become a liberal hell hole. I’ve seen it deteriorate since I left the UW 25 years ago. Back then there was one bad area, the Badger Road-South Park Street area. Now there are many areas that are dangerous for decent folks.
Madison is what happens when liberals are in charge for decades.
I've never lived in Wisconsin, but remember Madison as an epicenter of 1960s radicalism.