Hey, look, Milwaukee is featured in a New York Times story. Unfortunately, it is not for a very flattering reason. Sadly, the NYT story has done a lot better job reporting on this problem than our local media has. For example:
The police say the suspects and the victims tend to be black, young - midteens to mid-20's - and have previous criminal records. They tend to know each other. Several cities said that domestic violence had also risen. And the murders tend to be limited to particular neighborhoods. Downtown Milwaukee has not had a homicide in about five years, but in largely black neighborhoods on the north side, murders rose from 57 in 2004 to 94 last year.
This is something that everyone in this part of the state knows (at least the ones who know Milwaukee well enough to pick out roughly which neighborhoods the shooting are in when we hear about them on the news). If you just listened to our local media, you would think the whole damn city had gone nuts. Folks, Milwaukee is not that dangerous. Go downtown, go out to the bars and restaurants, go see a game at the Bradley Center or The Cell, its a great town with a lot to offer. Have fun...
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