Operation Summer Blitz

Beginning Aug. 27, 2011, Milwaukee Police Officers deployed in 3 districts to prevent and reduce violent crime by saturating firearm hotspots, increasing traffic stops and conducting field interviews of known offenders and groups. Personnel assigned to the Neighborhood Policing and Criminal Investigation Bureaus have embarked upon a collaborative directed patrol mission to prevent and reduce violent crime in several Milwaukee neighborhoods in Districts 3, 5 and 7 that have experienced an increase in shootings and other firearms-related incidents. In the past 3 weeks, we have seen a marked decrease of 40% in non-fatal shootings. The tactic is working.