'Summer Safety Walks:' Milwaukee residents, leaders come together

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee residents and city leaders went for a stroll in the name of safety Friday, Aug. 12, part of the "Summer Safety Walks" program.

The walks have been going on all summer in a different Milwaukee neighborhood each week. It is geared toward connecting the community.

"This is really a community building exercise, and it provides an opportunity again for those constituents out there to get the chance to see, feel, talk to their elected representatives," Mayor Cavalier Johnson said.

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Friday's was on the south side, starting at Ohio Playfield on Holt Avenue. It was the last walk of the summer.