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Further exacerbating the city's police shortage is the redeployment of cops from the streets of Milwaukee to those of Baghdad, Mosul and Kabul. As many as 135 officers at one time have gone on leave to serve in Wisconsin's National Guard or military reserve units in Iraq and Afghanistan. "It's difficult to manage a force that's always coming and going," says police chief Nanette Hegerty. Those left to hold down the fort at home feel overstretched and underappreciated. "Morale is low," says Officer John Balcerzak, head of the police union. "We're racing...
...worst homicides found 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...
...majority of the parolees entered prison in their early 20s or late teens. Most never finished school or held a job, and they lack the skills to do so. In Wisconsin 70% of prisoners struggle with drug or alcohol addiction. "If we don't want to see them again and again, we've got to offer them more than the clothes on their backs, a Greyhound ticket and $15 in their pocket," says Dolan, referring to aid cons receive when they leave prison. Even those who participated in substance-abuse counseling and the few education and job-training programs available...
...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...
Since 1998, Wisconsin has lost nearly 90,000 manufacturing jobs. Milwaukee has suffered the brunt of that, hemorrhaging 7,500 positions in 2005 alone. The unemployment rate hovers around 7%, up from 2.6% in 1998 and nearly double the national average. In inner-city neighborhoods, the level rises to nearly 60% for working-age males. With only half of adults earning more than a high school diploma, the city's residents aren't well matched for the white-collar jobs most common today. The number of able men wandering the streets in the daytime is striking...