Black mayors reduce violent crimes across the country

Tulsa, Okla.–Since the efforts to combat the latest weapons in Tulsa are continuing, a preview of the long -term plans of Mayor Monroe Nichols seems to be exhibited in at least three other cities with black mayors in which violence crimes are falling.

The mayor of Baltimore, Randall Woodfin, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson and the Mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott, have made national headlines in the past few weeks because they have achieved historical reductions in murders and violent crimes.

In Tulsa, most of the reaction of the Tulsa mayor Nichols focused on weapon violence on the updated outcome lock, which adolescents banned and after the meeting in the city center within the Inter-Dispersal-Loop (IDL) after 9 pm the proposal and Tulsa city council.

In the meantime, Mayor Nichols has worked since taking office in December 2024 to publish a long -term intervention plan for violence in the community in order to make Tulsa one of the safest major cities in the country.

“We are now building some of these blocks,” said Mayor Nichols recently in an interview.

Birmingham

According to the city's crime data, murders in Birmingham, Alabama, have dropped by 46% in the first five months of 2025. It comes after the deadliest year in 2024 has been recorded for the city with up to 151 murders.

The mayor of Magic City, Woodfin, both the police and the community for the drastic decline in the murders and the higher rate from the street at the removal of violent offenders.

“The police authority in Birmingham is locked up. We have a significant increase in technology with the real -time criminal center,” said Mayor Woodfin in an X, formerly Twitter, posted video at the end of May.

“But separately from technology that increases people. People want to know why crime is no longer? It is because the community is making its contribution,” he said, and increasingly emphasized funds in the city's budget for criminal police officers and street teams of community reduction in the community.

Chicago

Although the chicago in a city that has decades for the neglect of workers-to-class black and other marginalized communities is notorious, Chicago's murder rate is reduced under the leadership of the progressive mayor Brandon Johnson.

According to the city, Chi-Town recorded a decline in murders by 33%in the first half of 2025. At 192 murders until June, according to the Cook County medical examiner, it has been the lowest price for over a decade.

In addition to other intervention strategies in the municipality, Mayor Johnson attributed a large part of the city's reduction in the city's summer job program for young people, Fox 32 reported.

“If you expect that after 400 years of disinvestment in this country of black people, I can surround this in two years, you know well and well that nobody can turn this historical disinvestment over in two years,” said Chicago Mayor in a video that was published on his Instagram. “But what I can tell you is the first mayor to use real money for it.”

Baltimore

Nationally, the violent crime rate has dropped during pandemic since top. Overall, violent crimes decreased by 3%, and the murders decreased by 11%according to the latest available FBI statistics.

In the city of Baltimore, Maryland, one of the most drastic reduction in the country's violent crimes. During a press conference in early July, the mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Johnson, announced that the city had experienced the slightest amount of murders in the first half of the year in over 50 years.

“Our continued progress is the direct result of the comprehensive, evidence -based strategy for public security, which we have implemented in cooperation with the residents,” said Mayor Scott. “I would like to recognize the management of our ecosystem for violent interventions, monse, the men and women of the BPD, our regional law enforcement authorities and our partners in the public prosecutor, the US law firm and the office of the Attorney General.”

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In Tulsa, the efforts to reduce gun violence in a state in which weapon permits are not necessary remains a tough struggle. During the highlight of pandemic in May 2020, the Republican governor of Oklahoma Kevin Stitt signed a law that passed cities, the laws adopted that limit the possession of weapons to people who apply to themselves or others.

Mayor Scott has been an office in Baltimore since 2020, Birmingham Mayor Woodfin has been an office since 2021, and the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, has been in office since 2023.

In the meantime, the mayor of Tulsa, Monroe Nichols, had only months since taking office in December 2024 to solve the problem. Nevertheless, he has committed to pursue an aggressive and evidence -based approach to combating weapons and other violent crimes.

In December, the Mayor of Tulsa's office received a federal grant in the amount of $ 2 million to implement violence and intervention initiatives in the municipality, and the police authority of Tulsa received $ 2.5 million from the Ministry of Justice in order to tackle the serious deficit when testing rape kits.

Recently, Mayor Nichol has introduced the index of the neighborhood conditions that work with neighborhoods to “use data to lead the fair investment of resources in the city and to support the residents in identifying assets and opportunities in their neighborhoods”.

“In the long term, it looks as if you are investing in initiatives for the intervention of violence in the community to ensure that there is a system in which these young people who are possibly justice are people who can trust who can help to get them on a different way. This path must also exist,” said Mayor Nichols.

“That is why youth employment programs are so important. There must be opportunities on the other side. If you ask me to do something other than what I know, the other thing looks,” he said.

Take a full interview with the Mayor of Tulsa Monroe Nichols below: