Former superintendent criticizes suggestion that police are evil
By Mark Lisheron | Badger Institute
In the 2023-24 school year, after Milwaukee officials agreed to put police officers back into local high schools — something that still hasn’t happened — schools called police 1,245 times for help with allegations of everything from armed robbery to sexual assault to felony theft.
It was way back in June 2023 that Milwaukee leaders reached a deal with legislators allowing both the city and the county to raise sales taxes in exchange for putting officers back in crime-ridden Milwaukee Public Schools by Jan. 1, 2024.
Throughout the 2023-24 school year, high school officials made an average of 32.7 calls a week, or 6.9 calls a day, to police, according to Milwaukee Police Department data released to the Badger Institute this week after an open records request.
