evidence: The former president’s perception of Milwaukee may be shaped by the rise in homicides while he was in office. The Milwaukee murder rate nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 in Trump’s last year in office, when the mismanaged Covid-19 pandemic led to a nationwide spike in crime. But it’s a different story under the Biden administration. According to data from the Milwaukee Police Department, the number of homicides dropped 20 percent last year, and is down another 17 percent so far this year. [...] Of course, like any city in gun-saturated America, Milwaukee suffers from needless gun deaths.