Is this because the police have backed off from doing their jobs due to recent events? 
Flynn addresses 'deadliest month' in 25 years
Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10:36 p.m. CDT September 1, 2016
A woman beaten to death with a lamp in an act of domestic violence. A man fatally stabbed during an argument outside a tavern. A man shot and killed while returning from a funeral for his grandfather.
Those are just three of the 24 homicides recorded in August — what Milwaukee police have termed the "deadliest month" in 25 years.
It is the highest monthly total since July 1991, when the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer were discovered, Milwaukee police said.
"We've had a slight increase in domestic violence homicides this year, but the biggest driver of our homicides is arguments and fights and retaliation among people with criminal records," Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Thursday.
"Some of our challenge is simply consistently being able to deter armed offending through the criminal justice system," he added. "The penalties are too weak."
Although Chicago has captured national headlines for having its deadliest month in nearly two decades, Milwaukee had a higher per capita rate of killings (4 per 100,000 people) in August compared with its neighbor to the south (3.3 per 100,000 people), according to Milwaukee police.
Tracey Dent, a longtime community activist, called the statistics "heartbreaking."
"At the same time, I have anger," he said. "I host a lot of 'Stop the Violence' events with very little support because people will say ... 'nothing's going to change.'"
"Twenty-four homicides in one month and there's no outrage?" he continued. "That's a problem."
Dent said it will take residents, police and city leaders working together to prevent and reduce deadly violence.
Flynn addresses 'deadliest month' in 25 years
Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10:36 p.m. CDT September 1, 2016
A woman beaten to death with a lamp in an act of domestic violence. A man fatally stabbed during an argument outside a tavern. A man shot and killed while returning from a funeral for his grandfather.
Those are just three of the 24 homicides recorded in August — what Milwaukee police have termed the "deadliest month" in 25 years.
It is the highest monthly total since July 1991, when the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer were discovered, Milwaukee police said.
"We've had a slight increase in domestic violence homicides this year, but the biggest driver of our homicides is arguments and fights and retaliation among people with criminal records," Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Thursday.
"Some of our challenge is simply consistently being able to deter armed offending through the criminal justice system," he added. "The penalties are too weak."
Although Chicago has captured national headlines for having its deadliest month in nearly two decades, Milwaukee had a higher per capita rate of killings (4 per 100,000 people) in August compared with its neighbor to the south (3.3 per 100,000 people), according to Milwaukee police.
Tracey Dent, a longtime community activist, called the statistics "heartbreaking."
"At the same time, I have anger," he said. "I host a lot of 'Stop the Violence' events with very little support because people will say ... 'nothing's going to change.'"
"Twenty-four homicides in one month and there's no outrage?" he continued. "That's a problem."
Dent said it will take residents, police and city leaders working together to prevent and reduce deadly violence.
If someone says, "Well, just pull up your bootstraps and go get a job!", I'll tell them to go check out the hurdles in place to keep someone from the city (read: a lower-income black person) from seeking a better wage that may be in the suburbs. For fukk's sake, a lawsuit had to be filed (and ruled in favor of the plaintiffs) just to get buslines that would take people from the inner city to the suburbs to get jobs. I work directly with the agencies and officials involved with this. This is really just scratching the surface.