In 1933, the city set a record for homicides with 148 violent deaths.
Though it is impossible to know what is in store for Birmingham in the last three months of 2024, Saturday’s massAs of today, there have been 122 homicides in Birmingham in 2024.At the rate Birmingham has gone in 2024, a year that has seen three quadruple homicides in seven months, the city could easily have 27 or more homicides before Jan. 1, 2025.The spike in homicides this year also comes at a time of dwindling population for Birmingham.
In 1933, when Birmingham had just under 269,000 people, the city had 5.7 homicides for every 10,000 people. “Whether this city has suffered one homicide or 100-plus homicides, our focus on the number of arrests we make,’’ said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
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