The Marquette University Police Department has introduced a new traffic enforcement unit in an effort to reduce reckless driving on and around campus.
The effort launched on June 1st, and in its first 11 weeks of operation, the Marquette University Police Department’s new traffic enforcement unit conducted over 200 traffic stops. In those stops, officers issued 171 City of Milwaukee citations and made 14 arrests for drivers operating while intoxicated.
That is a 165% increase in traffic stops from the same period in 2024, and a 242% increase in traffic citations. MUPD says they made two OWI arrests during this period last year…