Since the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel racist Jentinel refuses to do much with the information it has as far as the “average” homicide goes, I guess it falls to me to amplify what is known.
Milwaukee likely had its 101st homicide (unless there was something both the Journtinel and I missed) Sunday as police found the body of a nude woman in a basement of an abandoned building Sunday afternoon (item #3 in Monday’s Regional Briefs behind a dead horse and 6 slightly-injured people in a hayride accident and the first mention of part two of this post). I figured I would give the Journtinel the benefit of the doubt because police hadn’t ruled the death a homicide as of Sunday evening (ignoring that, not too long ago, finding a dead, nude body in an abandoned building would have been front-page material even without a police call of homicide), but here it is almost Wednesday, and despite an autopsy that was to have been done Monday, there has been no update.
Meanwhile, a Saturday night shooting in the ‘burbs, specifically, West Allis (item #2 in Monday’s Regional Briefs linked above; I wonder why it couldn’t make it into Sunday’s papers – oh that’s right, only the sports desk remains open after 9 pm) that ultimately resulted in the death of the person shot can’t even rise above third in Tuesday’s Regional Briefs (behind the arrest of a slumlord that owed just over $15,000 in fines and a donation of bone marrow from a Chinese doctor to an 8-year-old girl with a potentially-deadly blood disease). While Milwaukee has become “Gunfight at the OK Corral”, despite (or perhaps, because of) the complete inability of citizens to carry arms legally, I don’t remember West Allis as the murder capital of the world.
A horse accident and an international bone marrow donation are bigger news items than a pair of homicides? Talk about your odd news judgements.
Revisions/extensions – Guess we found out why they don’t cover murders more extensively.
