and in case you missed it the k-9 blood drive hosted by the milwaukee police department was a huge success over the weekend many dog owners proudly stepped up to the plate including k-9 officers with mpd to fortify the local blood bank for dog blood but this event at the rarely open to the public neighborhood task force building on belief street was about so much more this was a chance for members of the public to meet officers from several different divisions including fugitive apprehension in a low pressure atmosphere well i mean the community is essential to our work they're the reason for our work i mean our mission is to help create safe communities and so when we have an event like this it creates opportunities for individual citizens and officers just to get to know each other you know there's no crisis going on no one has to intervene in an emergency they get to interact with each other as as fellow residents of this great city milwaukee bucks mascot bingo was on hand the brewers had appearances from the racing sausages and martine maldonado stopped by with his family plenty of heroes to go around and an example of a city trying to bridge the gap to better understand each other and what we all feel we need to feel safe in our community looks like fun all right a couple who recently moved from