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MPD reports modest Q1 homicide uptick, outlines 2025 violent‑crime plan with Summer/Winter Guardian and SRO focus
Summary
Milwaukee Police Department briefed the Fire and Police Commission on Q1 2025 crime data showing a slight year‑over‑year rise in homicides and presented an amended 2025 violent‑crime reduction plan emphasizing targeted deployments, community outreach (Summer/Winter Guardian), school resource officers and multi‑agency partnerships.
The Milwaukee Police Department told the Fire and Police Commission on May 1 that Q1 2025 violent‑crime trends show a slight increase in homicides compared with Q1 2024 and outlined an amended 2025 violent‑crime reduction plan that emphasizes data‑driven deployments, community outreach and multi‑agency partnerships.
Chief of Staff Heather Huff said homicides rose from 23 in Q1 2024 to 25 in Q1 2025 but remain below 2023 levels (39 in that quarter). Huff said nonfatal shootings and other Part 1 crime measures have shown improvement overall, and stressed that many factors beyond policing affect crime trends: “We react to crime ... That’s our role,” she said.
Huff described a number of programs and changes highlighted in the updated plan. Summer Guardian is a data‑driven seasonal deployment in…
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