Shotspotter detectors recorded 2,164 gunshots one Birmingham neighborhood in 2023. That is six gunshots per day. Now, the city is blocking roads in East Lake to try to trap fleeing suspects.
Birmingham is 69% Black and only 23% White.
1992: 141 (263k, 53.6 homicides per 100k) former all-time highest rate
2020: 122 (200k, 61.0 homicides per 100k) new record for highest rate
2021: 142 (198k, 71.7 per 100k) new record for highest rate
2022: 144 (197k, 73.1 per 100k) new record for highest rate
2023: 135 (196k, 68.9 per 100k)
Birmingham officials say there was 148 murders in 1933. Birmingham had about 261k people at this time. However, far more was included on the official list of murders back then. Much of what was counted as a “murder” in 1933 is now classified as a lesser crime, like negligent manslaughter. This is true all across the USA.
“Everyone can be tracked by their cell phone”….. or not? Yet they must block off streets to try to catch the shooters? Something smells here.
Dopey leftist rag al.com just published these two articles within hours of each other, unironically:
https://www.al.com/news/2024/11/birminghams-2024-homicides-hit-highest-in-recent-memory-145th-victim-1-of-4-shot-in-single-night.html – Guess who did essentially all 145 of ‘em? “Birmingham’s all-time record for homicides was in 1933 with 148 killings. The city’s population today is a little under 197,000 people. In 1933, Birmingham had just under 269,000 people.”
https://www.al.com/opinion/2024/11/jd-crowe-kay-ivey-is-the-proud-face-of-alabama-prisons-bless-her-heart.html – Their Juice-ish far-left cartoonist puts the White female Republican Governor’s face on the prison, implying her ilk are responsible for the state becoming a shooting gallery.
Coincidentally, he also did this to her in his previous cartoon, about the state’s “ambulance desert”: https://www.al.com/opinion/2024/11/jd-crowe-people-are-dying-in-kay-iveys-alabama-ambulance-desert.html
Like all libs, he thinks money grows on trees and is being hoarded by mean White conservatives. He doesn’t realize a highly-melanated state like Alabama will forever be on the brink of bankruptcy simply due to its demographics.