By Scott Buttram
publisher
BIRMINGHAM –For the third year in a row, homicides in Birmingham have risen. The 2017 total is the highest in 21 years.
According to a list compiled by BhamWiki.com, there were 113 homicides in Alabama’s largest city in 2017. That matches the 1996 total of 113.
Locally, Trussville had no homicides in 2017, down from one homicide reported in 2016.
Birmingham has seen a year over year increase in homicides since 2015 after posting only 63 homicides in 2014, one of the lowest totals in 40 years.
A story published by Birmingham News crime and public safety reporter Carol Robinson listed 111 homicides in Birmingham and another 61 in the rest of Jefferson County. Robinson said the slight difference in the two lists is based on the criteria used.
“Wiki includes traffic deaths and we don’t,” Robinson said.
The 61 homicides in Jefferson County also represent an increase over the 40 reported in 2016.
25 Comments
Aaron Bruce
A black eye on the state of Alabama. Birmingham is one of the most dangerous cities in the nation.
I hope and pray the new mayor will make the safety of his citizens top priority, instead of building parks and retail districts.
Dean Bradford
Well gee, who would’ve thought..
Jen Autwell
Not suprised
Matt Phillips
Build a wall around Trussville now
Mike-Holly Downing
Nice Sanctuary CITY
Mike Jay
Has Birmingham starts to grow…the crime will spread to cities like Hoover, Trussville, Clay, McCalla, Fultondale, and Hueytown…
next 4-6 years these cities will have high crime rates
Heather Marie
That’s what happens to liberal cities.
Sharon Blackwood Wilbourn
Yep. It’s already taken over Center Point. CP used to be a safe place 😢
David Garrard
Wtf does that have to do with it? I lived in a neighborhood in blount county with my wife who was mexican. Nearly everyone in that neighborhood was undocumented. It was so safe we left our doors unlocked. U sound as ignorant as Trump
David Garrard
In a red state. Poverty breeds crime. And all big cities have this issue. U think conservative cities like Dallas etc. Dont have crime?
Mike-Holly Downing
Go get your Nobel peace prize from Nobama
Lauren Pearson Burch
David Garrard I don’t think Heather said anywhere in her post they don’t have crime. It’s proven that with high poverty follows high crime rates 🤷♀️ look at Detroit. Democrat ran and we are coming in close to being the next Detroit. I’m hoping the new mayor can change things around.
Anne Snider Steward
Most of you make me laugh…clueless, living in your bubbles of know it all lands. Birmingham has been in the top highest per capita crime cities for the past 5 or 6 yrs. Last yr we made number 2. The crime is NOT going to spread, outside of maybe robberies, because we live in more affluent areas. . The people who are killing others are typically gang, drug, culture related. Speak to your Birmingham police officers and learn what’s really going on. Your Federal government laws which were put into affect by Obama about community policing are some of the reasons the crime is where it is. Birmingham is one of 10 cities chosen for this Federal study 3 years ago. I bet you can guess the other cities. Police have their hands tied as to the way they are supposed to deal with the crime. My post could go on and on…but please learn rather than assuming Birminghams a bad place or blaming the mayor etc… it’s much deeper than that.
Anne Snider Steward
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/chicago-police-union-suing-department-taser-policy/
There’s another one of the research cities…
Daniel Ingram
All those white people out there committing all that crime…
Scott White
And ran by liberals. The highest crime rates in the country have democrats running the show..
Marie Armstrong
Not much the Mayor can do without the citizen’s help. A cop on every street corner will not stop the shootings. People need to rise up and take responsibility for cleaning up their neighborhoods too.
James S Vining
Those darn honkies!!!
Mary Frame
David Garrard – sounds like you are the ignorant one. Band of brothers illegals and criminals usually don’t rob each other.
Mary Frame
Lauren Pearson Burch – the new mayor is also a democrat, but we can all hope.
Chris Hyde
Birmingham hasn’t been one of the most dangerous cities in the past 5-6 years….Birmingham has been on of the most dangerous US cities for decades
Anne Snider Steward
2017 Forbes…wow we are number 5 now in 2017 😂
Anne Snider Steward
Anne Snider Steward
And this is why I get sick of hearing people say it’s just a matter of time until Trussville is just like this??? You’re right Chris Hyde. But most people apparently do not read or know where they live unless it’s on fb …or rumors. So it must be true!
Arlene Sanders
Until The People Tell Who does these crimes the Police and Mayor can’t catch and punish them