ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY AUG. 18, 2019 - In this Aug 7, 2019 photo police officers from Milwaukee Police Department's District 7 sit at a bench last week in Sherman Park in Milwaukee. Willie Murphy, District 7 police captain, told NNS in a 2018 interview that "I want to keep officers in their assigned areas, so the residents and officers can become familiar with each other and the problems that go on in the community." It's a sharp contrast from the night of August 13, 2016, when footage from the Sherman Park neighborhood filled television screens in Milwaukee and across the world. That night, stores burned, and angry young men denounced the killing of one of their own_23-year-old Sylville Smith_by a Milwaukee police officer. (Edgar Mendez/Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service via AP)
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