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Mayor Woodfin reports homicide decline, progress on 82-point crime commission plan
Summary
Mayor Randall L. Woodfin told the council the city has implemented 54 of 82 crime-commission recommendations, with 32 actively in progress; he cited a 43% reduction in homicides as of May 4 and described expanded hospital-linked violence intervention efforts and blight-removal activity.
Mayor Randall L. Woodfin used his May 6 report to update the Birmingham City Council on public-safety implementation steps following the city's crime commission recommendations.
Woodfin told the council that 54 of the commission's 82 recommendations are now in place in some form, with 32 active and in progress. He said city departments have worked to address hot spots beyond policing, including code enforcement, removal of blighted structures, and demolition of abandoned buildings. The mayor said the city has removed 26…
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