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Article: MILWAUKEE COUNTY TRANSIT Cops, dots and safety A good time to take the bus. And thanks in part to a new sheriff's program, it's also a safe time to take the bus.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2009
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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr.'s strategy of putting
"cops on the dots," in his words, seems to be working, and
Milwaukee's buses appear to be safer as a result. Keep up the good
work.
According to a Journal Sentinel article by Ryan Haggerty,
reported incidents on buses have decreased so far in 2009 when
compared with the same period in each of the past two years, the
sheriff's office says.
Clarke said the decrease stems in large part from the work of 25
plainclothes deputies who ride buses, concentrating on routes that
experience the most incidents (the sheriff's "dots"), as determined
by crime analysis programs. The Milwaukee County Transit System
sends information about ...