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Residents feel equally frustrated. "The police simply showing up can be half the battle in many people's minds," says Steve O'Connell, who lives in the working-class Sherman Park neighborhood. This summer, Milwaukee's 911 dispatchers received, on average, 1,700 calls a day. As police captain Donald Gaglione told a community meeting, "If your 911 call is not a high priority, it may take several hours before we respond, if at all." But people who live in volatile neighborhoods say they need police to intercede before minor disturbances become serious matters...
...that 50% of both homicide perpetrators and victims in 2005 had been previously arrested. One in five was on probation or parole at the time of the slaying. "It's shocking to see the criminal histories of the people in these cases," says University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee professor Steve Brandl, one the commissioners. "They seem destined for a life of imprisonment...
...halfway beds for recently released inmates, but those beds are so in demand that a parolee can stay a maximum of just 90 days. "Ideally we'd have five to 10 times the number of beds we do, and we could tailor the stay for each ex-offender," says Steve Swigart, whose nonprofit Wisconsin Community Services runs such facilities. Often the alternative is sleeping on a drug-house sofa or rejoining a gang simply for a place to bunk...
...trios from nine of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas. Jess G. Peritz ’06, one of last year’s leads, will be singing “Alone and Yet Alive” from “The Mikado”; father and son Steve W. Morris ’75 and Ben T. Morris ’09 will perform the duet “So Go to Him and Say to Him” from “Patience”; and D. Steve Garlick ’60, Jay L. Banks...
...Perhaps wisely, Bush is not offering himself as the Answer Man. Instead, his aim is to remind Iraqis that he wants to support them in solving their problems, not taking ownership of them. National Security Adviser Steve Hadley told reporters on Air Force One on the way to Estonia that Bush will be a good listener at the meeting. "We're not at the point where the President is going to be in a position to lay out a comprehensive plan at this point," Hadley said. Instead, Republican officials have said, the President plans to announce "a way forward...