re: Birmingham Shootings

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Most of the bad stuff occurs in places you should not be in the first place. Especially the violent crime.

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I'm showing my age but downtown Bham would become a ghost town during the late 70's & 80's after 5pm when the working class headed out to the suburbs, There were a few great restaurants but the old Redmont hotel was rent by the hour, on any given night you would ride by there an see the pimps and hookers hangin' in the lobby. 4th Ave N was a hooker haven. Alll you really had downtown for entertainment was the Boutwell Auditorium and the BJCC

The revitalization kicked off with Railroad Park being the catalyst, then moving the Barons to the new Regions Field stadium was another smart move and the lofts and bars followed popping up everywhere which changed the demographic. Avondale was bums and transitional homes for drug addicts.

All the crime and thugs relocated West of I-65 and more toward the Northside, and of course slowly to the east where East Lake & Roebuck were very nice middle class areas. Sad to see parts of those areas now