Milwaukee Sets Homicide Record for the Second Straight Year
December 16, 2021 | Wisconsin
With two murders recorded on Dec. 13, the city of Milwaukee set a new annual record with 192 homicides, a 98-percent increase in just two years.
It is the second straight year of record murders in Wisconsin’s largest city.
Milwaukee joins a dozen other major urban centers with record-high murders in 2021.
Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, leads the nation with 739 murders through Nov. 30, according to an analysis compiled by ABC News. Chicago’s homicide record, 974, was set in 1970.
As 2021 draws to a close, homicide records have been set in Tucson, Arizona; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; St. Paul, Minnesota; Indianapolis, Indiana; Louisville, Kentucky; Toledo, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Austin, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Rochester, New York…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
