As Milwaukee Continues to Experience Increased Gun Violence, Recent Survey Shows Residents are Ready for Real Solutions

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As gun violence in Milwaukee continues to surge, Wisconsin residents are prepared for sustainable options that save lives and create safer neighborhoods. A current pulse survey of Wisconsin residents performed by CMRignite, a number one multicultural public well being and trigger advertising and marketing communications company based mostly in Milwaukee, discovered that greater than 80% of Wisconsin residents agree that gun violence in Milwaukee is a critical subject, and greater than half say it is crucial subject within the metropolis.

As well as, CMRignite has partnered with The Asha Mission for a “Males’s Solely” occasion Friday, August 19 on the Wisconsin African American Girls’s Middle, 3020 W. Vliet St. from 7 p.m. till 9 p.m. This candid dialogue will discuss gun violence and home violence. The company will conduct a digital survey to seize extra insights about this subject.

“As a proud Milwaukee native, I’ve seen the irreversible influence of gun violence and have watched it destroy too lots of our neighborhoods, our communities and our households,” stated David Bowles, president of CMRignite. “From the Central Metropolis to the Deer District, we have misplaced too many lives to this epidemic. It is time for daring concepts and daring actions, and I am hopeful that CMRignite will be part of the answer. We’re all on this collectively.”

CMRignite’s survey additional revealed the next information factors:

• Three-fourths of Milwaukee residents say that gun violence has gotten worse in Milwaukee over the previous three years.
• Solely 13% of Wisconsin residents agree that Milwaukee has efficient methods to handle gun violence.
• Wisconsin residents agree that assist companies for psychological well being and trauma, peer/mentor assist and skills-based training to deal with violence could be useful in selling security and stopping gun violence in Milwaukee.

“CMRignite’s survey findings illustrate the significance of listening to residents and understanding their lived experiences with the intention to develop efficient options,” defined Dr. Joan Prince, a guide with CMRignite’s Analysis Division. “The suggestions from this survey is invaluable as all of us search for methods to handle gun violence and make Milwaukee’s neighborhoods protected for youngsters and households.”

Primarily based on the survey findings, CMRignite has recognized a three-pronged violence prevention strategy:

1. Develop a platform to amplify the voices of victims of gun violence and their households

2. Create a complete, city-wide effort that brings collectively grassroots organizations, enterprise stakeholders and authorities leaders to seek out actual options based mostly on analysis findings

3. Work with native organizations to develop and deploy hands-on training derived from quantitative information and revolutionary violence prevention sources that target battle decision.

To obtain the survey findings and be taught extra about this initiative, please contact CMRignite at 414-704-9932 or [email protected].

ABOUT CMRIGNITE

Based in 1995, CMRignite is a full-service, strategic communications company that makes a speciality of growing trigger and habits change advertising and marketing for Fortune 500 firms, main nonprofits and authorities businesses. With a group of 60 staff, 70% of whom are BIPOC, was not too long ago named to the Inc. 5000 record of quickest rising firms within the nation.

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SOURCE CMRignite