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Report: Milwaukee arrests and traffic stops dropped sharply over the last decade
Summary
Rob Henkin, immediate past president of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, and Ari Brown, senior research associate, presented data showing Milwaukee Police Department arrests fell about 82% from 2012 to 2023 and traffic stops fell roughly 81.5% since 2015.
Rob Henkin, immediate past president of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, and Ari Brown, senior research associate with the Wisconsin Policy Forum, presented data to the Fire and Police Commissioners Oversight and Accountability Committee on Jan. 21 showing steep, sustained declines in Milwaukee Police Department arrests and traffic stops over the last decade.
The forum’s report found MPD arrests fell from a little over 51,000 in 2012 to a little over 9,000 in 2023 — a decline the report quantified at 82.3 percent — and that reported traffic stops declined roughly 81.5 percent since 2015. "MPD is making far fewer arrests and traffic stops than it did a decade ago," Brown said during the committee meeting.
The report compared Milwaukee with a set of peer cities with similar populations and found that Milwaukee moved from having the…
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