Milwaukee's historic year of violence ends with 189 homicide victims

Milwaukee's historic year of violence ends with 189 homicide victims

"Milwaukee concluded its historically violent year with 189 homicides as of New Year’s Day, nearly doubling that figure from 2019 and smashing its previous record set in 1991 by more than 14% 

The grim increase, which many experts and local officials believe was influenced by the coronavirus pandemic, follows a trend seen in dozens of other American cities in 2020 and comes after four years of declining homicides locally...Read all.