Neighborhood leaders are crediting an increase in youth and family programming, a new health clinic and creation of a neighborhood association with a 32 percent reduction in crime since 2013.
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Milwaukee police say officers who arrested reporter feared for their safety
A Milwaukee police spokesman says officers were put on edge by a local reporter who pulled up to their police car and asked why they were in the area, just a week after two New York policemen were shot and killed in their squad car while on patrol.
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Neighborhoods earn national recognition for partnerships with police
The MetLife Foundation and LISC recognized three community organizations for their work with police to reduce crime. This is the first time three groups from the same city received the national award.
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Neighborhoods earn national recognition for partnerships with police
The MetLife Foundation and LISC recognized three community organizations for their work with police to reduce crime. This is the first time three groups from the same city received the national award.
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Neighborhood residents welcome ‘ShotSpotter’ and heightened police presence
ShotSpotter sensors quickly alert police to gunfire in neighborhoods.
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Clean Slate Milwaukee urges ex-convicts to ‘be part of their own rescue’
Clean Slate Milwaukee provides expungement services for young adults between the ages of 17-25 who have non-violent felony or misdemeanor convictions.
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Council member to introduce legislation requiring body cameras on police
New legislation is anticipated this week that would require police officers to wear body cameras while working in the community.
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Milwaukeeans to demonstrate in support of outraged Ferguson residents
Local citizens and organizations are calling for justice in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo. A demonstration is planned for Friday at Red Arrow Park, where an African American man was shot to death by a police officer in April.
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‘The shooters are killing people who look like themselves’
More than 50 city residents listened as one after another described their personal connection to gun violence and shared thoughts on how to stop it.
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Curbing violence in Milwaukee will “take a village”
At a town meeting on gun violence, leaders and citizens agreed that community members have to take back their own neighborhoods.