evidence: - Homicides have more than doubled (up 121%) and were higher in 2022 than in 2021. [...] Despite the decline in robberies, violent crime as a whole actually rose by nearly 16% from 2013 to 2022. That is largely due to a steep rise of 60% in aggravated assaults — an offense that by volume made up about three-fourths of violent crimes in Milwaukee in 2022. The most serious offenses, homicides and rapes, constitute only a tiny fraction, about 2%, of total serious crime even when they spiked in 2022. [...] These considerations aside, measures of serious violence are on the rise. Homicides have doubled from the two-decade average of 100 per year, reaching a record 214 killings in 2022. Non-fatal shootings have nearly doubled from 444 in 2019 to 877 in 2022. Combining the two, Milwaukee tallied at least 1,091 victims of murder or attempted murder (by gun) in 2022 compared to 541 in 2019 — 550 more victims, or a nearly 102% increase.