Number of Milwaukee police officers decreased 16% in past five years
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Police in Wisconsin killed 149 people since 2013, lower than the national rate
By Peter Cameron, The Badger Project Law enforcement officers in Wisconsin kill people at among the lower per capita rates in the country. But some agencies including the sheriff's ...
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Wisconsin police departments were already struggling to draw and keep officers. Calls for accountability have made it even harder.
Departments large and small struggle to find and retain officers in Wisconsin
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Total police officers, academy graduates in Wisconsin at 10-year low
The number of law enforcement officers in the state and the number of law enforcement academy graduates here have fallen to their lowest points in at least a decade, according to data from the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Wisconsin has about 13,600 law enforcement officers at the moment. Thatâs down from a decade high of nearly 16,000 in 2012. And the state graduated only 766 people from law enforcement academies in fiscal year 2020, according to the most recent data from the stateâs DOJ. That number has been dropping gradually since a decade-high 954 people graduated from acade...
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