GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A study of Green Bay’s gun violence is finished and will be presented at next week’s city council meeting.
According to the study from the National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform and Green Bay Police, “Green Bay’s homicide rate is consistently lower than the U.S. average – about half the national rate. The 10-year average homicide rate in Green Bay is 2.3 per 100,000 population, and its homicide occurrences are often about equal to or lower than the Wisconsin statewide homicide rate.”
The 10-page report includes a summary that most gun violence in the city is “tightly concentrated on a small number of very high risk young Black male adults that share a common set of risk factors like involvement in street crews/groups and significant criminal justice history, including prior active community supervision and/or active pending criminal cases.”
Recommendations from the study include creating a gun violence reduction unit, improving intelligence gathering, implementing a gun violence reduction strategy, and increasing investment in community-based services.
Green Bay had six homicides in 2020 and two in 2021. Between the two years, there were 23 nonfatal injury shootings, and 129 other shots fired incidents.
Accidental self-inflictions, officer-involved shootings, and justified self-defense shootings were excluded in the study.
The National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform and Green Bay Police will present the analysis at Tuesday’s council meeting, which starts at 6 p.m.
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