The department says reducing violent crime has already resulted in a 41.3% decrease in the homicide rate for 2025.

Interim Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett was a senior at Ramsay High School when 15-year-old April Jamerson was fatally shot during Senior Skip Day in a Southside park in 2002. It’s a day ...

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and interim Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett said in an interview Tuesday their plan to reduce violent crime in the city, which reached a record level last ...

BPD is locked in,” Interim Police Chief Michael Pickett said. “What’s happened over the past year and a half has been horrific with one person causing so much pain in our community and ...

The suspect fled but was quickly identified. Led by Interim Police Chief Michael Pickett, the police department’s Special Enforcement Team took the suspect into custody in Pleasant Grove.

Since a September mass shooting and a record-level of violent crime last year, Birmingham police are hitting high-crime areas, with a push to recruit more officers and go after gun offenses.