New black officers, court officials rethinking US policing

Associated Press ^ | November 17, 2018 | Jay Reeves

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s."

I wonder just how many homes were actually "bombed" by the KKK in the 50s and 60s? Anybody know? I don't remember hearing about it.

[CondorFlight]

” . . . a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s.”

That was half a century ago. Birmingham now has a large muslim population.

If you keep looking backwards, you’re going to find out you have become irrelevant.

[gspurlock]

Riiiiight, because citizens need nannies, not protection. Got it. When parents and schools fail, it is the job of our police force to compensate for those failures. Outsourcing responsibility is the trend, and it always winds up in the lap of law enforcement. That is the start of the creation of a police state. What fun!

[antidemoncrat]

“Veteran Alabama law enforcement officer Mark Pettway grew up in a black neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan bombed so many houses there in the 1950s and ’60s.”

He is a Democrat and I wonder if he realizes the KKK was created and and ran by the Democrats?

[Carry me back]

According to the left whites are all evil. Forget that whites built the best nations known to man.

[Vinnie]

We just elected a new black sheriff in Wake Co North Carolina.
Mumbles when he speaks but managed to determine that he is stopping the sheriff dept cooperation with ICE.
Yea.. /s

[Midwesterner53]

Sheriff’s dont write the law, they enforce it so what he thinks should happen to the law is unimportant.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Naah. Birmingham has lost nearly half its residents. Virtually most of the Whites voted with their feets and fled to the adjacent counties. In 1960, it had 340,000 people (205k White, 135k Black). By 2010, it plummeted to 212,000 (with just 44k White & 156k Black). Even Blacks are leaving, too, dropping from a peak population of 178k in 2000. There’s virtually as many White folks in the city of Dothan as in B’ham today (probably more since 2010), and Dothan only has 65k overall.