Milwaukee, WI
1-on-1 with St. Louis Police Chief on city’s falling homicide numbers as violence spikes in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE — Whereas cities throughout the nation have seen an increase in violent crime, particularly in homicides, a metropolis related in measurement to Milwaukee is seeing the alternative.
The St. Louis Police Division studies their homicides numbers have fallen in back-to-back years.
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“Our violent crime of numbers are pre-pandemic proper now, and on the identical time, there’s so many different cities that haven’t returned to pre-pandemic ranges,” stated St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden.
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The newest murder numbers from Milwaukee Police present there are 65 homicides for town as of April 25. To place that quantity in perspective, TMJ4 Information in contrast homicides numbers at different related sized cities.
In response to police knowledge, Minneapolis has had 27 homicides thus far this yr, Cleveland has had 43, St. Louis is at 51, and Baltimore has had 104.
Nevertheless, St. Louis is the one metropolis that has seen a lower in murder charges yr after yr.
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“We’re sustaining a downward pattern in murder reductions,” stated Chief Hayden.
St. Louis murder numbers:
2021: 199
2020: 263
2019: 194
2018: 186
St. Louis has been seeing a drop in homicides because it peaked in 2020 with 263. At that very same time, Milwaukee had 189. Nevertheless, Milwaukee’s murder numbers proceed to rise.
Milwaukee murder numbers:
2021: 193
2020: 189
2019: 98
2018: 99
“We put our gang unit inside a murder division, I actually consider that that is serving to in the best way of communication with the group,” stated Chief Hayden.
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However the police chief says there’s not one factor driving up crime numbers and there’s not one method inflicting them to fall.
“I feel we now have a successful mixture within the social companies. We even have social employee with driving with our cops, that’s one thing that I’ve discovered to be significantly useful. Then we even have Remedy Violence working with a number of the retaliatory points that we have had in sure neighborhoods through the years,” stated Chief Hayden.
The Milwaukee Police Division has related approaches in place, together with some groups of social employees who reply with cops and 414Life, which is violence interrupter group that is part of town’s workplace of violence prevention.
Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson says he has not particularly been following what’s occurring in St. Louis with regards to crime, however he says he plans to get extra concerned with the U.S. Convention of Mayors and the Nationwide League of Cities.
“I am of the assumption that you do not essentially must recreate the wheel if one thing is working nicely in one other group then let’s discover a method to adapt it right here, particularly whether it is confirmed to work nicely in one other group with a number of the related challenges that we face in Milwaukee,” stated Johnson.
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