Key data in the report come from a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee study from earlier this year. Citing census data, the study says that as of April 2010, 12.8% black working-age men in Wisconsin were in state prisons or local jails — the highest such rate in the country.
Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told the BBC: “When over 90% of the perpetrators of homicide in this city are African-American, we are called upon to do something.”
Via BBC examines incarcerations of black males in Milwaukee and in Wisconsin @ JS All Politics Blog.