evidence: Milwaukee concluded its historically violent year with 189 homicides as of New Year’s Day, nearly doubling that figure from 2019 and smashing its previous record set in 1991 by more than 14% [...] But it’s not just fatal violence that skyrocketed in Milwaukee in 2020. As of Dec. 16, nonfatal shootings had already victimized more than 700 people in Milwaukee, a 64% increase from 2019, according to the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission. That also ended a two-year decline. [...] From 2010 through 2014, Milwaukee eclipsed 100 homicides annually just once before a spike of 147 in 2015 and 142 the following year, according to police. Those numbers continued to trend downward to 97 in 2019.