The U.S. among the worst at solving murders in the industrialized world

[steve from amherst]

While the rate at which murders are solved or "cleared" has been declining for decades, it has now dropped to slightly below 50% in 2020 - a new historic low. And several big cities, including Chicago, have seen the number of murder cases resulting in at least one arrest dip into the low to mid-30% range.

 

"We saw a sharp drop in the national clearance rate in 2020," says Prof. Philip Cook, a public policy researcher and professor emeritus at Duke University and the University of Chicago Urban Labs who has been studying clearance rates for decades. "It reached close to 50% at that time nationwide, which was the lowest ever recorded by the FBI. And it hasn't come up that much since then."

That makes the U.S. among the worst at solving murders in the industrialized world. Germany, for example, consistently clears well over 90% of its murders.

While reasons behind the drop are multi-faceted, Cook and other experts warn that more people getting away with murder in the the U.S. is driving a kind of doom loop of mutual mistrust: low murder clearance rates impede future investigations which in turn potentially drive up killings in some communities where a lack of arrests undermines deterrence and sends a message that the police will not or cannot protect them.

[mtnloverxtreme2]

when you have a certain percentage of the pop always killing each other, nobody seems to give a shit. and seeing that demographic accounts for the huge percentage of murders, it is not a surprise

[teamgreen02]

Could you imagine trying to solve murders from gang wars in places like Chicago?

[Cold War]

5 minutes ago, mtnloverxtreme2 said:

when you have a certain percentage of the pop always killing each other, nobody seems to give a shit. and seeing that demographic accounts for the huge percentage of murders, it is not a surprise

Yup.  White peoples mostly kill people they know. Easily solved.  Hard to solve random killings of strangers. 

[Cold War]

The freeway shootings have become a daily occurrence. Never be solved.  
 

Look at the starkly difference between spray paint on synagogue.  This will be solved. Before sun was up, State reps weighed in on their outrage and devastation. Vandalism will not be tolerated, murder will not be acknowledged. 

[jonlafon1]

12 hours ago, teamgreen02 said:

Could you imagine trying to solve murders from gang wars in places like Chicago?

Shit job and betting most of these don't get as much attention as other.. Not saying its right or wrong..

I cant even imagine living in that shit hole much less solving gang murders that happen every day.

[Cold War]

Solved!!!! 
Brought the FBI in .  
 

Nope……still trying to figure it out.  No FBI. 

[Anler]

Cops are workaholics

[Stephen Hawking]

We just have smarter criminals. 

[Skidooski]

Harder to pin these on innocent people these days?

[Highmark]

Isn't the solve rate in Shitcago about 30%.   Bet its like that in any inner city.   People won't come forward so I can't feel sorry for those areas. 

https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/10/09/768552458/chicago-s-dismal-murder-solve-rate-even-worse-when-victims-are-black

The data, obtained by WBEZ under Illinois' open-records law, show the city had 849 murders between the beginning of 2018 and this past July. When the victim was white, 47% of the cases were solved during those same 19 months. For Hispanics, the rate was about 33%. When the victim was African American, it was less than 22%.

Edited May 2, 2023 by Highmark