Public Safety

The Department of Public Works' Neighborhood Traffic Management Program offers engineering solutions to traffic safety concerns. This explainer guide breaks down how community members can access the program.

Wisconsin has two new laws that are meant to curb reckless driving and carjacking. On Wednesday, Gov. Tony Evers spoke at a bill signing ceremony at Grace Lutheran Evangelical Church in Milwaukee.

Legislators brought two new bills before an Assembly committee Tuesday that would raise fines and jail time for various reckless driving offenses and allow municipalities to impound cars.

Last month, Safe & Sound named Bridget Whitaker as their new executive director. She joins Lake Effect to share her goals for the nonprofit, which works across ten neighborhoods in Milwaukee to unite residents, young people, law enforcement, and community resources to try and make the community safer.

Milwaukee's mayor and a coalition of churches, schools and neighborhood groups are asking three large insurance companies to help pay for more drivers education for high school students. The hope is that more well-trained young drivers will equal less reckless driving in the city.

Wisconsin State Patrol and other agencies struggle to help reach a goal of zero preventable highway deaths.

Milwaukee’s mayor and police chief visited Milwaukee Public Schools students Tuesday to respond to their concerns about reckless driving.

Vision Zero is a plan that seeks to end all reckless driving deaths during the next decades. Steve O’Connell is the chair of the Sherman Park Reckless Driving Committee, which has signed onto Vision Zero. He shares about his work with the committee and what he hopes to see happen in the city of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee is trying to be tougher on reckless drivers and is launching a towing plan starting May 1.

Dozens of Milwaukee pedestrians have been killed by vehicles, and thousands seriously hurt during the past six years. The problem is part of a national…