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"Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is calling for 100 new police officers in his 2014 budget proposal unveiled Tuesday.The mayor said public safety is his top priority along with job creation.He is hoping to have 50 officers graduate in January 2014 and be on the streets by summer of 2014.\"We want to make sure we're maintaining our police force. At a time when other cities have seen layoffs or attrition, we've been able to avoid that in Milwaukee and I'm very proud we've been able to avoid that,\" said Barrett.Milwaukee's police chief Ed Flynn said in the meantime, his department plans to focus on 189 individuals that have had two or more cases involving guns that have been referred to the district attorney's office.\"We're going to make sure we do the same thing we're doing now, which is focus our officers tightly on locations with the most crime and individuals with the most crime,\" Flynn said.The mayor has already requested a $500,000 dollars from the state to help pay for police overtime and keep more officers on the streets after a rash of violence this summer.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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