No offense, but can you post things other than fear-mongering crime reports? There’s 100% more relevant and thoughtful content out there that can actually be engaging to users like me who are interested in discussion about our town.
If I wanted to see a stream of live crime updates, there are better places for me to go look at that than on Lemmy.
I would lower the rate at which crime stuff is posted. Yes, it is an unfortunate truth of living in a metropolitan area, but most violent crime involves people who have some sort of preexisting relationship; a random person is far more likely to get killed by a reckless driver than someone they don’t know. The reports often have almost zero information beyond the ages of the people involved and where the crime happened, so there isn’t much to be gleaned until weeks later when someone at a publication writes a substantial article about the particular case.
Really? I live in Milwaukee and have yet to witness one or be involved in one... so they can't be going on all the time. I agree with the "post less of this type of stuff" sentiment.
Just because you’re not a victim of a shooting doesn’t mean they aren’t happening. Don’t cover your eyes and plug your ears and think this violence isn’t still happening in Milwaukee.
It’s important to care, even if it’s not happening to you or your family. There’s other people in this city.
I do care, and I don't ignore it... I just think that we can try to amplify the good things as well, if not more. The people who hate Milwaukee are always looking for more and more negative things, and those are some of the people who enjoy the benefits Milwaukee provides to the state of Wisconsin while at the same time condemning it.
If you want to amplify some of the good things about Milwaukee, then start making some of your own posts. I’ve already posted some good things on Lemmy.
I don’t think more police is the answer to reckless driving. I am much more interested in physical infrastructure deterrents to reckless driving - traffic circles are an obvious choice.
My husband was driving our car when the car nearly got totaled in a hit-and-run late at night in downtown Milwaukee a few years ago. The police showed up well after the fact and couldn’t really do anything about it. But if the intersection he had been driving through had been a traffic circle instead, that would have prevented the incident entirely or reduced it to a fender-bender.
You’re spot on. Police don’t stop bad stuff from u happening, they just show up after the fact and issue tickets. And no, tickets are not a deterrent for events that people don’t think through logically, they’re just a revenue scheme.
Narrowing the road, narrowing the intersection, street parking, trees, and so on are are small things you can do to make drivers slow down naturally and increase the safety and pleasantness of an area. Honestly I have no idea what this area looks like, but even if extra police fixed the problem, they’re an ongoing cost, while infrastructure changes are a one-time cost.
If people keep damaging the infrastructure, the infrastructure is designed wrong. Either it needs to be strengthened to withstand multiple impacts or a different change needs to happen so people stop hitting things they’re not supposed to.
A traffic circle has aesthetic and financial benefits to the city beyond what a stop light can provide:
The center is a nice green space where flowers and/or grass can be planted.
The traffic circle doesn’t use electricity which is a cost savings.
But what do the bump outs do other than provide a detrimental effect? They cost more and were put in specifically to react to criminal behavior.
More police means more patrols and faster response time. The police are never going to know in advance when a crime is going to happen, this is reality. The goal is to catch more people and hopefully those people will not commit the crimes again. If they do, they’re taken off the street so that there’s one less criminal the public has to put up with.
Right. Folks like to talk about how nobody allegedly rides it, whereas it actually gets a surprising amount for how limited it currently is. Let’s see if any of the planned extensions (Walker’s Point, Westown, Bronzeville, East Side) come to fruition. I know we’ve been denied federal grants several times for constructing them, but I am assuming that is due to us not having finished the starter set for so long and even needing an Act of Congress to extend the grant deadline for the L-Line.
I am a little suspicious of the max effectiveness of the proposed expansions (except the Bronzeville one) due to their seemingly short length, but gosh we need pretty much any size of step at this point for anything transportation-related. One of these days I should see if I can dig up the studies that are available for them and figure out the estimated impact each one will have.
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