Milwaukee’s new mayor says the city’s homicide numbers are “unacceptably alarming.”
Cavalier Johnson was sworn into permanent office Wednesday after serving as acting mayor for almost four months.
Johnson says an important step in reducing homicides is to toughen laws to keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them in the first place.
He calls that “common sense,” adding the city’s partners in state government need to work with it to make gun safety a priority.
The 53 homicides reported in Milwaukee during the first three months of this year are double the number during the same period in 2021.
