Police: August was deadliest month in Milwaukee in 25 years
MILWAUKEE —Milwaukee police said the city hasn't had this many homicides since July 1991, when bodies were found in Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment.
There were 24 homicides in Milwaukee in August, and there have been 93 total so far this year.
The Police Department said that Milwaukee's per-capita homicide rate was significantly higher than the homicide rate of the city of Chicago.
"It is homicidal violent crime that is most significantly affecting our disadvantaged neighborhoods of color," Police Chief Ed Flynn said at an afternoon news conference. "In the month of August, 83 percent of our homicide victims were African-Americans, and 83 percent of described assailants were African-Americans. And against this backdrop, the police department still seized over 200 firearms."
Flynn made a plea to those who have been protesting in Sherman Park to turn their attention instead to stopping the violence.
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So, the police are protested again, that was about 3 weeks ago. Then we see the city suffers 24 homicides in a month, 93 for the year.
Similar happened in Baltimore, protest the police, homicides go up. Not saying it is cause and effect, just an observation.
