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MILWAUKEE -- [/b]The Milwaukee Police Department has released a report detailing each incident that involved the use of force in 2009.The report states the department arrested nearly 35,000 people and only about 1 percent of those arrests involved the use of some kind of force. The use of force could range from physical confrontation to gunfire.Critics said the report fails to explain why some officers are repeatedly involved in use-of-force incidents.Last year, Milwaukee police were involved in 459 incidents in which officers used force. The report states 12 percent of those incidents involved a firearm.The Fire and Police Commission members said they consider that remarkable."It's a very rare event that the use of force is exercised by Milwaukee police officers," Fire and Police Commission member Michael Tobin said.A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor prepared the report. The goal was to give the department a baseline from which to spot trends. Researchers said while the incidence of force is low, it is not uniform.The highest incidence of force occurred in the Seventh Police District. It was involved in one-third of the use-of-force reports.The lowest incident rate was in Police District 1 at only 2.8 percent of all arrest incidents."I see them use force all the time. I think they corrupt if you ask me," resident Marcus Roberts said.In the hardest hit neighborhoods, opinions on officer use of force differed."They need to use it when there's a cause to use it, if someone's being aggressive at the police, then, yes, the police should be aggressive back," resident Sindy Marylou Johnson said.Attorney Jonathan Safran represents Frank Jude, the man beaten by several Milwaukee police officers, several of whom were assigned to District 7."Someone needs to look at, is there a culture at District 7? Is there something that would make District 7 have such a variance compared to other districts," attorney Jonathan Safran, said.Safran said what he found most troubling about the report was the number of officers involved in multiple incidents of use of force.Twenty percent of Milwaukee officers used force last year and 40 percent of those involved were involved in multiple incidentsTobin said the report is just a starting point and will help the department target problem spots and officers."The report is going to help us looking into the future look at all of the use of force incidents and helping guide the pd in developing their policies, making sure the procedures the police are following are the correct ones," Tobin said.The commission said the report is the most in-depth analysis the department has ever undertaken and a rarity for similar-sized police departments.The professor who authored the report will present it at a public meeting of the Fire and Police Commission on Thursday at 6 p.m. at Alexian Village.
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MILWAUKEE -- [/b]The Milwaukee Police Department has released a report detailing each incident that involved the use of force in 2009.The report states the department arrested nearly 35,000 people and only about 1 percent of those arrests involved the use of some kind of force. The use of force could range from physical confrontation to gunfire.Critics said the report fails to explain why some officers are repeatedly involved in use-of-force incidents.Last year, Milwaukee police were involved in 459 incidents in which officers used force. The report states 12 percent of those incidents involved a firearm.The Fire and Police Commission members said they consider that remarkable."It's a very rare event that the use of force is exercised by Milwaukee police officers," Fire and Police Commission member Michael Tobin said.A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor prepared the report. The goal was to give the department a baseline from which to spot trends. Researchers said while the incidence of force is low, it is not uniform.The highest incidence of force occurred in the Seventh Police District. It was involved in one-third of the use-of-force reports.The lowest incident rate was in Police District 1 at only 2.8 percent of all arrest incidents."I see them use force all the time. I think they corrupt if you ask me," resident Marcus Roberts said.In the hardest hit neighborhoods, opinions on officer use of force differed."They need to use it when there's a cause to use it, if someone's being aggressive at the police, then, yes, the police should be aggressive back," resident Sindy Marylou Johnson said.Attorney Jonathan Safran represents Frank Jude, the man beaten by several Milwaukee police officers, several of whom were assigned to District 7."Someone needs to look at, is there a culture at District 7? Is there something that would make District 7 have such a variance compared to other districts," attorney Jonathan Safran, said.Safran said what he found most troubling about the report was the number of officers involved in multiple incidents of use of force.Twenty percent of Milwaukee officers used force last year and 40 percent of those involved were involved in multiple incidentsTobin said the report is just a starting point and will help the department target problem spots and officers."The report is going to help us looking into the future look at all of the use of force incidents and helping guide the pd in developing their policies, making sure the procedures the police are following are the correct ones," Tobin said.The commission said the report is the most in-depth analysis the department has ever undertaken and a rarity for similar-sized police departments.The professor who authored the report will present it at a public meeting of the Fire and Police Commission on Thursday at 6 p.m. at Alexian Village.