Wisconsin US Senator Herb Kohl says cuts in federal funding for police are partly to blame for a spike in violent crime in Milwaukee.But the Dean of UW-Milwaukee’s School of Social Welfare says reducing violence takes more than just hiring more police.Gil Halsted reports…
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