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Violent Crime Up 28% in Milwaukee

It’s nice to see Milwaukee actually exceed some national trend.... I guess…

Violent crime rose nationally by 1.9% and property crime dropped at the same rate from 2005 to 2006, the report says.

In Milwaukee, violent crime shot up by 28%, though homicides and rapes were down 15% and 29% respectively. Robbery (23%) and aggravated assaults (34%) were up.

Posted by Owen at 0552 hrs
Culture + Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Or a more up-to-date header could be that violent crime went down since then in Milwaukee, after it went up—as the link says:

   “The Milwaukee Police Department’s Neighborhood Safety Initiative show nonfatal shootings down 22%, homicides down 9.4% and armed robberies down 3%” in the summer of 2007.  The story says since Labor Day, but it also apparently has a lot of flaws in data, as they differ in the story and in the box accompanying it.  So maybe we will get more reliable and even more up-to-date data next week with the next report, as the story also says.

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