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Sunday, November 24, 2024

I would have never believed it.




 I post quite often about the shootings/killings that take place in the Birmingham, Alabama also known as "The Magic City". It is mind boggling me to that people number of people who regularly shoot each other for reasons that are incomprehensible to me. 

Birmingham, Alabama has just experienced their 145th killing this year. The 145th was 1 of 4 persons in Birmingham shot in a single night. The city is on the verge of setting an infamous all time record.

The story that spurred this post was in the local news outlet this morning. I found this article interesting due to the mention of the year that holds the record for homicides in Birmingham, AL is 1933! That seems like an awful a lot of homicides to me and especially for that time period in the United States. One thing in the article I noticed was the population at that time was 269,000 compared to a head count of  197,000 today. It would be interesting to see how many of those were firearm related vs. the numbers from today. Below is the link to the story.

 

19 comments:

  1. Those are rookie numbers! Your not even in league with Baltimore! C'mon!! You're going to have to maybe TRIPLE those numbers to beat Chi-cago! DAMN!!! No coffee for you, coffee is for Winners!!!!!

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  2. Sigh. Look at Chicongo. Black cities have black crime. I saw it as a Peace Officer for over 30 years.

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    1. Second City Cop is back up, if you want to follow the adventures of Chicongo. Evidently, they were able to either fix the anonymity problem or they got to the point where it didn’t matter. At any rate, they’re a welcome return.

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    2. Alot of information on second city cop

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  3. Probably hanging from the Jim Crow days. Baltimore 5 years ago set the US per capita record. I had to go there that December and back in Jan. A month later for 10 days. Buy me a beer someday and I can tell you a few stories from that short period.

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  4. Well, there is a HUGE Amish community there and you know how much trouble they love to cause....LOL

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  5. I drove through Birmingham once, all kinds of construction and ended up driving my D-100 with Michigan plates right down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a quite unexpected safari that turned the daylight into darkness.

    The white guy behind the bulletproof glass in a gas station told me "Just go two blocks, hang a left and keep going, don't stop for anything!"

    That was fun, and 1998 is farther back than I remember...

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    1. Your story reminds me of the Griswald family's stop in St. Louis on their way to Wally World.

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    2. They probably felt that the rust and 2x8 bumper made it not worth shooting and robbing me.

      That's what I'm going with.

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  6. 1933, middle of the depression, not to mention bootlegging & racism. Number's probably not as mind boggling as you think.
    -lg

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  7. America doesn't have a Firearm problem , It has a HOOD RAT problem.

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  8. You would think that wid all dats shootin' and killin' there wouldn't be anyone left that needed shootin' and killin'!

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  9. 1. What a superb means of population reduction
    2. and these are only the official figures

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  10. If they are democrats, repeat-offenders, welfare-parasites, robbers/rapists/thieves/drug pushers and communists… they are not people anyway

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  11. white people ran birmingham in the 60's and back. black people have ran it since then. compare everything from then to today.

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    1. The fact of the matter is Birmingham boastfully elected their first black Mayor in 1979, I believe. It has been downhill since then. There are scores of mayors, council members, Water/Sewer Board (3-4 of those guys/gals were buying pontoon boats, etc.) and School board members among others that have been convicted and sentenced to prison. As far I as I can remember everyone of those were black and democrats except for one old white guy who was about to retire and had probably grown weary of watching theft and waste all while the perps were acting like they were living in ROMPER ROOM. Anyhow, he was the city finance director. He was about to retire when he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and taking the city for over a million. If I am wrong, please set me straight.

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  12. I thought Tulsa was bad in the 80s'.

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