Just blocks away from the Edmund Pettus Bridge, there are closed businesses, shattered glass, and boarded-up homes.
was shot and killed at Valley Creek apartments. There is reward money in this case.
Robert Turner, Jr. is the newest district attorney for the 4th Judicial Circuit in Alabama, covering Bibb, Dallas, Hale, Perry, and Wilcox counties. As the new DA, he’s inherited counties with some of the state’s highest poverty rates and highest crime rates per capita. And when it comes to crime per capita, Dallas Counties’ crime rate is higher than several other larger, surrounding counties, including Montgomery. In 2021, Montgomery County reported 314 violent crime incidents to the Department of Justice’s crime database. WSFA 12 News reported 75 homicides in Montgomery alone that year. In 2021, Dallas County reported 516 violent crime incidents to the same database.
“The drug crimes and property crimes are what we deal with the most, and most of those, in my opinion, are poverty-related,” Turner said. “There are people who commit retail theft almost on a daily basis, and it’s putting a strain on our grocery stores and our small businesses. This not only impacts our county but surrounding counties because a lot of those shoppers come to our area.
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