Unfortunate records will break.
A lightning bolts strikes June 23, 2006, near downtown Birmingham, Ala., as a strong thunderstorm passes over.The numbers are staggering, really. Death and loss and an inability to deal with it. Now we’re looking at setting more bloody records.
More than 3,500 people have been killed in the city alone since I started work in Birmingham in 1988. That’s more than the 2,977 who died on 9/11. More than the 2,459 Americans who died over two decades of war in Afghanistan. But alas, that is less reassuring today. The city on its own for the first time broke that per capita mark in 2022, when 73 people died for every 100,000 residents. And the city edged close to that 1933 total two years ago, just four homicides short. But it is likely both records will fall this year, the homicide total and the rate.
Current Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said the increase began in 2012 with what he called “a switchover” from the abuse of prescription opiates to illicit use of street heroin and other drugs.
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