State Rep. Juandalynn Givan said the city may be as many as 400 officers short and should have about 800 officers.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, addressing media on Sept. 24, 2024, said that more police will be patrolling the city's entertainment districts by this weekend following the Sept. 21 mass shooting in Five Points South that left four dead. Mayor Randall Woodfin said Tuesday that Birmingham police will have an increased presence in the city’s entertainment districts by this weekend after the Sept. 21 mass shooting in Five Points South that left four people dead and many more injured.
Birmingham has four designated Entertainment Districts: Uptown Entertainment District, which includes Protective Stadium, BJCC and City Walk; Pepper Place Entertainment District, which includes Lakeview and the 29th Street South corridor; the Avondale Entertainment District along 41st Street North near Avondale Park; and the Five Points South Entertainment District, which includes the Five Points Circle where the Hush Lounge shooting took place on Saturday.
Birmingham has already increased the starting pay for officers to $51,000 a year, plus a $5,000 signing bonus, with a take-home patrol car that helps increase visibility for police patrols in the city, he said. That was 28 graduating officers, said city spokesman Rick Journey, bringing this year’s total of police cadet graduates to 38 after an earlier class of 10. That’s an improvement on the previous two years.
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