And State Rep. David Bowen
responds--
There are dynamics of race at
play here where these are majority-white suburbs that are basically saying
‘Milwaukee needs to keep crime in in its own boundaries’ and the only way to
fix this issue is to use methods that don’t actually solve the issue.”
“It’s important for residents
in those areas and those districts that we be honest about solutions to crime
in Milwaukee. I work in Shorewood, a suburb and separate city of Milwaukee, and
there’s no way I would go to those residents and say, “Things will get better by
being more punitive.’ I tell them that things will get by doing things that are
evidence-based. That’s where we can gain the respect of and the attention of
the residents that are at the grassroots level who actually want these things
to get better.”
Thanks to Tracy (Messiah Lutheran) for being awake
to this article which you can read at
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