(The Center Square) – Eric Toney, the GOP candidate running for Wisconsin’s Attorney General, said Milwaukee was one of America’s most dangerous cities.
The Fond du Lac district attorney cited homicides within the city are on track to break the record of 193 set in 2021.
Yet, despite the reputation for violence, the city of Milwaukee police department has been arresting fewer and fewer people over the past nine years.
Milwaukee police made 13,272 arrests in 2021, which was 61% less than the 34,326 arrests made in 2012. The drop in arrests pre-dated the pandemic. Arrests went from 34,326 in 2012 to 17,007 in 2019, that’s more than a 50% drop in the year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
The decline in arrests comes at a time when police were going on more dispatched assignments than in the past.
Milwaukee police went on 279,818 dispatched assignments in 2021, the most since 2016 and the second-highest total of calls since 2012. City police were dispatched 13% more than in 2012, according to city data.
The Milwaukee police force had the fewest sworn officers in 2021 since at least 2006, when online records are available. The city had 1,839 sworn officers in 2021, which was 10% fewer than in 2012.
“The Milwaukee Police Department has not evaluated historical data related to arrests,” said Sgt. Efrain Cornejo, spokesman for the department. “We remain committed to working with our community and system partners to build sustainable healthy neighborhoods, free of crime and maintained by positive relationships.”
Milwaukee’s police department falls in line with numerous other police forces in the country that have seen a large reduction in arrests.
Joshua Taylor, the 4th Congressional District Chair of the Milwaukee Democratic Party, didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
The Milwaukee Police Association didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
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“Milwaukee’s police department falls in line with numerous other police forces in the country that have seen a large reduction in arrests.”
Note that the article says “a large reduction in arrests” NOT a large reduction in crime. Crime has more that tripled in Democrat ruled cities where the Democrats have put the people of color on throwns and allowing blacks to riot, burn, loot and kill without them being held accountable for their actions.
The Democrat Party’s Woke agenda is trying to con people of color to stay on the Democrat Party’s plantation.
But rational, educated people of color can see the racial destruction, Cons, Lies and Deceptions of the Democrat Party’s plantation and are turning to the GOP.
This Dishonorable, treasonous, socialist Democrat phony racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the rights of Black Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of racial discrimination. For their cause is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political Con.
ITS NOT a problem with lack of cops. WHAT GOOD Is it for there to be cops to ARREST crooks, when they just KEEP BEING RELEASED with out charges, or reduced charges??
It appears that the Democrat Socialists have infiltrated the police leadership, just like they have infiltrated the courts. Next the Democrats will be running for office from the prisons they already are in, but soon to get out of while the honest law-abiding crime defiant Americans and law and order candidates replace them in the prisons now controlled by the dark forces of socialist society subversion. Police have no incentives to arrest criminals who walk same day. Maybe if the were given bonuses and quotas for criminal arrests, just like they are given monthly quotas for gleaning revenue for traffic tickets issued, the actual safety factor in Milwaukee and other democrat run cities would improve.
Democrats have Succeeded turning large cities into 3 rd world like countries. Next will be the entire U.S.. We must vote.
I HAVE NO PITY FOR THESE LAWLESS CITIES.
nyc , chicago , milwaukee , los angeles , san francisco , minneapollis , portland , seattle.
you did it to your selves with your voting habit.
Me neither. I used to love going to Milwaukee, when the game convention GENCON was there.
NOW You couldn’t pay me to even just visit that city.