Before this weekend’s unrest following the fatal police shooting of Sylville Smith, Milwaukee’s police department reached out to the Department of Justice for help. “The Milwaukee mayor and police chief asked the Department of Justice for technical assistance,” said Ronald Davis, the director of the DOJ’s office of community-oriented policing services. “They [said] there were community concerns about the police department, and they wanted … to open the department up for an evaluation and assessment.”
After a 200 percent increase in police shootings between 2014 and 2015, MPD may have recognized that it could not achieve necessary changes on its own. In particular, the 2014 shooting death of Dontre Hamilton and the outrage sparked by the lack of charges against the officer involved may have forced MPD to consider reforms.
[For more of this story, written by Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...ry-probation/496007/]
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