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‘The [Birmingham AL.] police department has 223 vacancies for all sworn personnel, including 172 patrol officer positions, 34 officers in administrative, operations and investigative bureaus and 17 additional vacancies of sergeants, lieutenants and captains.’

This is a city with not even 200,000 people. Turns out nobody likes to get shot. And Alabama is ALL about guns.

Margaret Soltan, October 12, 2024 1:38PM
Posted in: guns

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2 Responses to “‘The [Birmingham AL.] police department has 223 vacancies for all sworn personnel, including 172 patrol officer positions, 34 officers in administrative, operations and investigative bureaus and 17 additional vacancies of sergeants, lieutenants and captains.’”

  1. gasstationwithoutpumps Says:
    October 13th, 2024 at 12:00AM

    Hmm “The Santa Cruz Police Department is dedicated and proud to serve the residents of and visitors to our city. A team of 119 employees, 94 budgeted sworn officers and 25 non-sworn civilian staff, serve a population of 63,789 residents in a city of 12.7 square miles.” Scaling that to Birmingham’s 196,910 suggests that a proportionate force would have a police force of 367 with 290 sworn staff. If they have 223 vacancies on the sworn staff, do they have anyone still working there?

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    October 13th, 2024 at 12:16AM

    You can see why – according to the article – the mayor initially tried giving the reporter the wrong number.

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