Milwaukee’s Department of Community Wellness and Safety has launched an initiative to take resources to the communities most affected by violence.
It’s leading weekly This Is Our City Community Cluster Walks in those areas to address residents’ needs.
The department identified more than 20 high volume incident clusters in the city using police data, “which means that these are neighborhoods or blocks that have seen the most combination of fatal and non-fatal shootings, and non-fatal shootings are ones that got reviewed by the Milwaukee Police Department public safety review,” says Julian Phifer, a program manager with the department…