MILWAUKEE — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, 104 people have been killed this year — after 86 homicides in all of 2014.
More than 30 other cities have also reported increases in violence from a year ago...
Law enforcement experts say disparate factors are at play in different cities, though no one is claiming to know for sure why murder rates are climbing...
