Milwaukee is the other big city on Lake Michigan 90 miles north of Chicago it’s home to beer the Bucks and The Fawns but these are not happy days a violent weekend in Milwaukee Milwaukee Police are investigating three separate shootings six shootings three dead all in a single day outbreak of violence in Milwaukee I want to do it Boy The name Milwaukee otherwise known as Cream City evokes images of long brick walkways for the unacquainted best known for its vibrant German culture the major league breweries and some of the largest breweries in the US Milwaukee seems like a nice tourist spot at least on paper step closer to pull back the curtains
And you’ll see the city for what it truly is ranked within the top three largest cities with the highest violent crime rate living in Milwaukee for the half million population is a tumultuous fight against the odds every day known as pimp school and home to the Milwaukee cannibal the city is ranked third
Highest for murder robbery and aggravated assault crime rates in Milwaukee rank 146% higher than the national average as the vibrant pulse of urban life fails to conceal its harsh reality these unforgiving circumstances have earned Milwaukee its second name killwaukee the out here was an old lady right here
And all they they did was just walk over like that then step back and look that’s the gy shot and SC no it’s 19th Street she was out here NE man what’s wrong with her what was wrong with all she was a uh you know what I’m saying she was a
Veteran height you know what I’m saying that’s she was a veteran height you know what I’m saying she Milwaukee a city whose streets bear the marks of its segregated history belongs to the hoods that gained prominence in the 1970s and 1980s present day Milwaukee is divided into
The north side and the South Side each with its own Street affiliations on the North side Hispanic street gangs with connections to Mexican drug trafficking organizations reign supreme meanwhile the South Side belongs to African-American street gangs like the Gangster Disciples and Vice Lords along with several local gangs named after the
Neighborhoods where the members grew up most areas in the city are recognized by their street names like Burley Hampton Center Street Capitol Drive and so on Gangster Disciples members can be found in the four block however most gangs have operations spread across the city with no designated areas what some of
The streets what some of the neighborhood man East Side I’m East Side I’m East Side I’m not east side gason but I roll with them okay okay you know I’m say I roll with the East Side gangsters everybody know that the whole town know that you know we put a lot of
Pressure a’t no about that e you know what I’m say Milwaukee heavy and G cult yeah I mean I mean the Two the One n all the all of them they know that we was the Money crew you know what I’m saying we had the best pimps the best hustles
The best everything East Side you go to Milwaukee that’s the side these gangs have been responsible for instigating much of the violence that plagues the streets of Milwaukee while gun violence and Petty crimes like car thefts run rampant drug trafficking Within These circles poses a bigger problem supply
Lines from Mexican and Chicago based drug trafficking organizations provide these groups with copious amounts of powder cocaine MDMA and commercial grade marijuana African American street gangs have taken control of multiple stash houses in the north for converting this powder cocaine to crack processing half a kilogram at times once processed these
Gangs recruit girlfriends and relatives to do their bidding on the streets as per an estimate by the local police department the city plays host to at least 50 gangs operating in the area with over a thousand members Hispanic gangs seem to oper operate under a well-established structure although the
Same cannot be said about the African-American street gangs a strong sense of Brotherhood and fraternity holds them together over the years there have been efforts to dismantle these groups tonight police announced a dozen arrests tied to a violent gang on the city’s north side and follows a very
Violent start to the year already 43 homicides 1550 stolen cars and just La last night police say a teen stole a car LED officers on a chase and then crashed into several other cars however the gang’s close-knit system has proven to be a considerable hurdle the reluctance of Arrested gang members to cooperate
With the authorities and kinship to even rival gang members have prevented the authorities from untangling this deeply woven web of chaos and gang violence in 2008 a multi-agency investigation by the local authorities led to the arrest of 100 gang members however they did little to rid Milwaukee of a fatal disease in
This elusive criminal realm gang members have also managed to outmaneuver authorities by using contracted cellular phones blackberries and burners for communication leaving no trace of their activities and preserving anonymity a stark example of this sophisticated approach unfolded when a prominent leader of a Northside gang was found to
Be using 20 different cellular phones to run his local drug Empire however Milwaukee’s Peril is hardly news for residents who have been living in the city since the old days Milwaukee has been steeped in Mayhem since its Inception from the Great Lake disasters to the dark tales of murder and
Matchstick Men and raging fires the city has seen its fair share of chaos and violence there have been no simpler times for the residents to look back on and years later the situation Remains the Same with no hope of getting better the city’s segregation itself is a reminder of the racial disparity that
Existed long ago in the region how did Milwaukee earn such a title A Marquette Professor points to white flight in the 70s and then people of color leaving in the 9s and 2000s for suburbs and other parts of the country we are left with these neighborhoods that are not only
Segregated racially but in terms of poverty and so you have neighborhoods where nobody really wants to move into them but Dr Roberto Kohl’s also points out there are programs working to counter the problem specifically bids or business Improvement districts back in the old days black people inhabited the
North side of the city while white people lived on the South Side the same holds true today with the only difference being the Hispanics having moved in black people first arrived in the city in the 1960s however the economy had reached a stalemate then putting an end to the city’s days as a
Thriving economic Hub in the backdrop of the economic turmoil blacks found themselves competing with whites a lack of opportunities gave no time for a black middle or upper class to find its footing and years later it seems the streets of Milwaukee continue to tell the same story as the destitute reek
Havoc across the county who were killed just hours apart and these latest fatal shootings come as Milwaukee County sees the highest number of homicides ever recorded in a single year Amelia Jones is live at Tonia and center with what we know about the victims Carl Milwaukee Police came here
To Tonia and Center just after midnight focusing their investigation on a shooting happening at the gas station behind me Fox 6 was here as police were getting underway with the investigation let’s take a look at the video when police got here they found a 23-year-old man had been shot despite lifesaving
Efforts the Milwaukee man died at the scene no word on any suspects Milwaukee police are looking into what led up to the shooting as the Clock Struck midnight ushering in the New Year in 2021 Milwaukee found itself in a grim reality a record-breaking 189 homicides nearly
Double that of 2019 however this was not the first time the city had grappled with such harrowing statistics in 1991 Milwaukee set a tragic precedent with 165 recorded deaths pointing to the persistent challenges that haveed Ed the city for years it’s been three record-breaking years of Bloodshed Milwaukee funeral director Tom
Morris says work has been busy very busy this year how many homicide victims have you cared for probably close to 50 and how many of those have died from gunshot wounds every single one of them although the Grim increase can be blamed on the Raging pandemic that tormented most
Cities around the country for Milwaukee it allowed existing evils to see seep through the cracks gun violence in the city followed a similar Trend Milwaukee concluded 2021 with more than 700 gun violence victims a 64% increase from 2019 bringing an end to the 2-year decline the same year the police
Confiscated more than 3,000 guns from local gang members highlighting an 18% increase from the year before Wednesday 5:00 p.m. rush hour at the busy intersection of James level and Wisconsin Avenue video shows one teen punch a man another pulls out a gun and shoots him in the stomach falls to the
Ground a witness nearly in the crossfire appears to snap a picture then helps the man as the three teens run off the city’s dire situation can be blamed on public menaces including the likes of Kenneth tman the 26-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison for first-degree Reckless homicide in 2021
Now this all started with what tman says was a chance encounter at a gas station parking lot in the doorway of the GPC quickmart near Fondulac and Locust tman was going in he says to get sodas Luckett was coming out with pizza rolls when the two recognized each other tman
Says he knew he still owed Luckett $150 for 3 G of cocaine from a year and a half earlier outside the convenience store tman says he tried to shake hands with Luckett but Luckett pulled his hand back he saw a gun in luckett’s other hand pointed at the ground and then he
Says Luckett told him this is how people die a sentence that came many years too late tman had found his way on Wisconsin’s most wanted fugitives list not once not twice but Thrice had the city acted timely then maybe 24-year-old Tavon Luckett the father of eight and
The last to die by Tan’s hands would still be alive today it was really traumatic a human trafficking Survivor sharing her story she says she met her trafficker on a dating app when she was 19 years old things went good for a couple weeks and then he became a total
Monster she says he started abusing her one time beating her until she was unconscious I basically woke up in his house with five other people people surrounding me and they told me that I now belong to them and how long were you in his house 3 years they held her
Against her will and sexually trafficked her for years it’s a crime that’s growing in Milwaukee in the dark underbelly of Milwaukee the Insidious evil of sex trafficking Finds Its stronghold giving way to the city’s other name the Harvard of pimp School within the bounds of Cream City the statistics paint a harrowing picture
Milwaukee ranks very high nationally among the number of victims recovered in Pimp’s prose uted according to one report 340 individuals aged 25 and under were confirmed to be victims of sex trafficking in the city between January 1st 2013 and December 31st 2016 over the years there have been attempts to
Dismantle Milwaukee’s deepk knit sex trafficking rings with some of them bearing results in 2012 authorities were able to arrest Derek Avery otherwise known as pimp Snookie in online circles see here but I’m going to find me some hoes man cuz I you know I got to I don’t feel
Right if I don’t get at a couple [ __ ] a day I ain’t got nothing one number today I know my PPP ain’t going sour you know [ __ ] you know yeah Daddy what’s up baby um I have a question what can I just spend the money on my dress no the
Question is yes you can spend the money on your dress but the question is you got to hit my M first okay you is that what I’m saying yes all right baby Avery prostituted scores of women and girls from Milwaukee to Las Vegas for approximately 16 years Aver’s victim
Cited violent degrading and abusive methods by which he managed to keep them in line according to court documents Avery regularly assaulted the women under him beating them with his fists wooden and metal brooms and leather belts kicking them with his alligator shoes and even hitting them with a baseball bat at times Federal
Prosecutors sentenced the father of 26 children to 20 years in prison however even with Avery behind Behind Bars most of Milwaukee’s pimps run rampant to this day praying on young women and runaways according to Milwaukee Police human trafficking is up 58% since last year this year police have had more confirmed
Cases in 9 months than all of 2021 why are we seeing the numbers grow you have a lot more vulnerable people right now with Co you have a lot more people with lack of physical affection and touch location also a factor that has a lot to
Do with the the pipeline is what they call it from Chicago and then you go up to the Dakotas where the um gas pipelines were being put in traffickers are going to look where is a lot of men that don’t have family with them cuz then that’s where we’re going to make a
Lot of money it sounds very strategic extremely strategic exploiting their dire circumstances these vulnerable individuals are forced to live as paychecks for their pimps Escape seems impossible as the threat of being hunted down and killed hangs solemnly over the victims even after Breaking Free from the clutches of these notorious pimps
Well of course unfortunately we’ve heard a lot recently about violent crime in the city of Milwaukee but now there’s word from Milwaukee Police that property crime is also up this year that includes people stealing stuff from cars and stealing the vehicles themselves Winnie Geor is live in River West a local
Community where people say they’ve been hit hard Winnie well neighbors tell me it seems like every day someone is reporting their car stolen or their car was broken into and for that reason one man says he’s always checking his surveillance camera in the midst of sex trafficking
Rings and gun violence the city also finds itself facing unprecedented property crime rates as of 2023 property crime rates in the area have increased by 22% with the incidence of car theft being the highest in fact Milwaukee ranked number one in motor vehicle theft from 2020 to 2022 the incidence of car
Thefts in the area increased by a concerning 111% Milwaukee safer neighborhoods are not Untouched by the string of crimes either Winnebago County Executive John Dell had his car stolen in the city after he and his wife were getting ready to go home in another incident a stolen vehicle crashed into a
School bus leaving many injured kids hanging out of a car swerving outside Morris middle school and crashing into the back of a parked school bus was a driver a passenger and I didn’t notice anyone until they started fleeing from the car there were at least three others
But it didn’t take long for people to start iding them police reviewed School surveillance video and a school administrator identified one of the passengers and another witness identified the driver as a student interestingly there seems to be an increasing incidence of Kia and Hyundai cars being used in these crimes the
Trend seems to have been picked up after the release of the song Shakey ne ne by the city’s own rappers sha p and Mary Mack with nearly a million plays on Spotify the song glorified stealing K and hundas laying the foundation for one of the strangest phenomenon in Milwaukee’s history devastated by the
Circumstances the authorities had taken a last resort by writing a letter to Kia and Hundai asking them to make changes to the car features that contributed to the increasing thefts Hyundai’s built between 2015 to 2021 and kaas manufactured between 2011 to 2021 featured a tiny knob under the ignition
Cylinder once a member of the Kia boys breaks the window which is as simple as throwing a rock anyone with a phone charger can switch on the engine and take the vehicle for a joy ride YouTube videos like I stole AIA with a Tik Tock hack by Jeremiah Burton fill in the gaps
For young men who may not have grasped the unsophisticated method Already however the authori pleas for a safer neighborhood fell on deaf ears as the automakers cited manufacturing problems for being unable to do something about the situation the circumstances gave birth to the Kia boys a group of teenage boys who went on terrorizing the neighborhoods by stealing cars boys as
Young as 12 years two young to apply for a driver’s license participated in car thefts prompting serious concerns about the State of Affairs this is one of those Kia stealing kids I swear bit I’m going crack your phone they’re called the ticktock Kia boys teens like these
Four stealing cars and using them to commit violent crimes good evening and thank you for joining us for the spotlight I’m David Rose the next time you see a Kia or Hyundai with a broken window and without a license plate it’s probably a stolen car and driving this
Crime trend is Tick Tock you don’t need a key bro it [ __ ] overrided bro yeah that’s what the kid boys doing man videos of Joy rides posted on Tik Tok and bragging social media posts only highlight the Stark dissociation of these individuals from their actions
What paves the way for this trend is a mix of pandemic boredom an urge to make it big on social media and a lack of police prosecution the result a total of 10,500 Vehicles were stolen in Milwaukee in 2021 with 67% being Hyundai and Kias given the circumstances you will seldom
Find car owners in Milwaukee or vehic without a yellow or red steering lock that said the Kia boys are far from a hierarchical organization anyone who steals a Kia or a Hyundai reserves the right to call himself a Kia boy unlike typical car theft Rings the Kia boys
Don’t operate out of financial interest but for the sake of social media Fame and the thrill of the ACT most stolen vehicles end up being returned wreaking of weed with bottles of booze in the back seat a gruesome story leads off our newscast Milwaukee Police found body
Parts in a North Side apartment and now they wonder if if they’ uncovered some kind of death factory this was the scene earlier this morning police hired a private contractor to haul a refrigerator and a tank of acid out of the apartment in the 900 block of North
25th Street because of the acid some neighbors were evacuated briefly police found parts of bodies leading them to believe the man they arrested is a mass murderer although Milwaukee’s history is shrouded with horrifying Tales of violence it’s the Twisted tale of Jeffrey dmer Milwaukee’s very own monster born born in the heart of
Wisconsin’s largest city that cast the longest shadow of them all perhaps it’s Milwaukee’s History of Violence that gave birth to a serial killer like Jeffrey dmer from 1978 to 1991 dmer a name that puzzles psychologists and criminologists to this day terrorized the streets of the city leaving a trail
Of dismembered dead bodies in his wake by the time he was arrested Jeffrey had claimed the lives of 17 males in the most gruesome way possible Many of these Grizzly murders unfolded against the backdrop of Milwaukee’s Urban landscape dmer first found a taste of blood under his grandmother’s roof in West Alice a suburb located in downtown Milwaukee well you’re looking good grandma was saying that that she thought that you got quite a bit thinner but you
Look fit I don’t know well I have been surviving mostly on McDonald’s food it’s just so much easier just to pop into the restaurant but yeah like I’ve said before it gets too expensive and it have to start eating at home more the house is still standing today offering a
Chilling reminder of what went down behind its closed doors the Twisted tale of malevolence continued as dmer moved to an apartment at 88 North 24th Street in September 1988 however it was within the walls of his apartment at the 49 unit apartment building Oxford apartments in his final year as a free
Man where D’s malevolent reain reached its Supreme apartment 213 at 924 North 25th Street was home to dmer for 4 18 months before he was finally arrested and put behind bars the building the halls of which once echoed with dmer footsteps as he walked home after the
Days killings has since then been torn down with a wire fence put up around the plot in Milwaukee the mother of one of Jeffrey dmer victims says it represents New Life the apartment building where the convicted murderer killed and mutilated many of his 17 victims is being demolished its owner Campus Circle
Project has offered to help relocate the remaining residents and Revitalize the neighborhood plans were introduced to transform the Sinister Place into something more constructive for the community serving as a symbolic Reclamation of the area from the clutches of evil however it seems like authorities remain Paralyzed by fear as
The lot stands vacant to this day the abandoned land serves as an alarming reminder of Milwaukee’s dark past symbolizing the city’s failed efforts to reclaim its streets from violence in the heart of Milwaukee a city grappling with unprecedented rates of gun violence and brutal crimes the roots of the issue run
Far deeper than the scars on the surface a Sinister shadow looms over the city tracing its lineage to a racially segregated system that has plagued the city since the very beginning the state ranks last in reading comprehension tests among black fourth graders with the largest achievement gap between
White and black students with the public school system struggling to keep afloat with federal and state funding cuts the majority of black children in the state find themselves living in poverty unable to climb their way out of the urban chaos owing to an inadequate education system these problems RI through the
Education sector leading to a suspension rate that’s doubled the national average for black students what follows is an inescapable cycle of Street affiliations gun violence and a life of crime for young minds as these boys find themselves mapping out the direction of their lives it is at this juncture when
The call to join street gangs beckons them to another life one steeped in violence with a promise of a stable life and a semblance of a sense of belonging these gangs offer Refuge News investigates Milwaukee’s record homicide rate and spike in violent crime means the county jail is nearing capacity 12
News Hillary Mintz with an exclusive look behind bars now this is the pre-book area Milwaukee County Jail Commander inspector Aaron Dobson exclusively gave 12 News a glimpse of the housing unit on this surveillance monitor on a normal day there’s about 64 individuals in these housing units it is busy Co kept
Us out of the secure area faces are blurred because not all have been charged so this is where they live and uh you know it’s challenging when the population does get quite High regrettably the city’s response to the concerning situation has been more than disappointing with an inclination towards incarceration over
Rehabilitation the city’s Council contributes another factor to the dark tale of social Decay recent years have shown a disheartening shift in priorities with the state approving more funds for Corrections than for higher education essentially stranding its young men and women in the abyss of violence the consequences of these
Misguided choices are etched on the faces of more than half of Milwaukee County’s black men in their 30s and 40s all of whom have found themselves counting their days behind bars at one point Milwaukee’s sex trafficking ring seems to prey on the same root causes broken homes drug abuse and homelessness
This woman who will’ll call Mary Brown lives with her son and Grandson around the corner from Sandra Williams she asked that we not use her real name because she lives in fear one of the few homeowners left in her block Brown’s property is an island of order in a sea
Of litter gang graffiti and burned out abandoned houses in the the 10 years Brown has owned her house she has watched her neighborhood fall apart given the rising crime rate and the lack of better opportunities many residents of Milwaukee have decided to pack their bags and move to greener pastures across
The borders of Brew City since the onset of the pandemic more than 20,000 people have reportedly bid farewell to the county their home of years meanwhile surrounding communities as near as wakaa County saw an increase of more than 3,000 residents while these residents go on to begin new chapters of their lives
The homes they leave behind don’t just turn into vacant Lots but living parasites that threaten the very safety of the neighborhood up until 2021 the Milwaukee Department of Neighborhood Services System had logged in a staggering 7,400 vacant properties the pandemic with its economic repercussions only served to exacerbate the issues
Leading to a surge of foreclosures adding to the city’s housing crisis Milwaukee firefighters battle a fire at a vacant home overnight the Flames were spotted near 25th in Burly around 1:00 this morning investigators have not said how that fire started no one was hurt these vacant properties once brimming
With life now stand witness to the city’s struggles dumping grounds and the backdrop for notorious gang activities the vacant lots are magnets for trouble upending the Peace of the neighborhood residents grappling with frequent break-ins and Fires at these vacant lots have often had to reach out to authorities for intervention between the
Lack of affordable housing and the abundance of vacant houses Milwaukee’s housing situation is somewhat of a paradox one that will not be solved any time soon residents are required to register their property as vacant if it stays empty for more than 30 days what follows is 2 years of quarterly checks
Before the property can be seized for non-payment of taxes the city’s own laws although well- intentional hinder timely efforts to breathe life into these properties by the time the authorities gather the resources to step in the houses more often than not have decayed Beyond salvation at this point it is
Much easier for authorities to tear down the structure than to revive it Milwaukee a city grappling with the ghosts of of its past and the challenges of the present finds itself at a Crossroads for council members and residents alike the path forward remains shrouded in uncertainty however that is
In no way an invitation to turn a blind eye to the city the lives lost and Community shattered beckon those Left Behind to do better the challenges of today be they rooted in systemic inequalities Rising crime rates or housing crises although cast a long Shadow over the potential of progress
Shouldn’t discourage attempts to restore peace to Milwaukee brewce city holds as much potential as its surrounding counties with its Rich cultural heritage and historical landmarks by calling for Action at both an individual and state level the community can pave the way for a brighter tomorrow if not for the
Residents of today then definitely for the children of tomorrow it is our hope that this documentary serves as a catalyst for change inspiring Authority members to take the appropriate measures and for individuals to step forward and break this cycle of violence
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