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Council committee presses MPD and partners for plan to curb late-night violence in entertainment districts
Summary
Milwaukee’s Public Safety & Health Committee received briefings from MPD, DCWS and community partners on shootings, Code Red deployments and 'teen takeovers', debated fenced entertainment districts and curfew centers, and asked for clearer plans to protect downtown while limiting strains on neighborhood police resources.
Milwaukee police and city agencies told the Public Safety & Health Committee on April 10 they are stepping up coordinated deployments and community interventions to respond to violent incidents and large congregations in downtown entertainment districts, but council members pressed for assurances that neighborhood patrols would not be hollowed out in the process.
Inspector Sharonda Grant of the Milwaukee Police Department said the department has seen a decline in its Part I crime metrics this year but detailed a March 22 incident on Water Street in which three people were shot and one was killed. "That night ... 26 officers were in deployment throughout the Code Red Entertainment District, which consists of four different zones downtown," Inspector Grant said, explaining the department increased staffing via voluntary overtime and Code Red…
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