The Unsolved Murder Rate Among Industrialized Nations is Highest in US at more than 50%

[Mr.WeRP]

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high

More murders across America are going unsolved, exacerbating the grief of families already reeling and worsening the largely cracked trust between police and the public, especially communities of color most affected by gun violence.
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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.

And NYC is at 73% unsolved murders with a clearance rate of only 36% (source: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/clearance.page)

Between 1965 and 2022 there are about 340k unsolved murder cases in the US: https://projectcoldcase.org/cold-case-homicide-stats/

[Klarkashton]

1. That coincides with the US paying more for cops

Than anywhere else. What a country!

[Irish_Dem]

2. So more than 50% of murderers get away with their crimes.

[Mr.WeRP]

3. Presently. It wasn't always this bad.

If you sum up all the murders from 1965-2022, you get a 66% clearance rate.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes but that clearance rate is no longer true.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Cleared doesn't mean solved or convicted. It just means not a cop issue anymore.

[RockRaven]

5. We've got more guns than people, so this hardly surprises, and

there is no way out in sight.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. gosh maybe the cops need MORE money I bet that would help

[TheProle]

8. "Oh hell no, we don't talk to police"

https://nicjr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/NYC-Study-2019.pdf

“Oh hell no, we don’t talk to police”

Research Summary: We conducted face-to-face inter- views with 50 young Black men, residents of high-crime neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, individuals who had considerable knowledge about illegal gun markets and the resulting bloodshed. Our findings confirm that dis- tressed milieus reliably fail to produce cooperative wit- nesses as a result of the cumulative impact of anti-snitching edicts, fear of retaliation, legal cynicism, and high-risk vic- tims’ normative views toward self-help.

Policy Implications: Disadvantaged communities of color typically have low fatal and nonfatal shooting clearance rates in part as a result of poor witness cooperation. Dimin- ished clearance rates have also been shown to intensify minority residents’ claims that officers do not care about keeping them or their neighborhoods safe. Respondents’ accounts identify three overlapping areas instructive for informing public policy: (1) reducing gun violence so that high-risk individuals live in objectively safer areas, (2) using intermediaries to launch grassroots campaigns countering pro-violence and anti-snitching norms, and (3) improving police–minority community relations.

The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (NICJR) is a left-of-center California-based policy and research organization that advocates for policies it believes will reduce gun violence and increase leniency in the criminal justice system .

Founded in 2017, NICJR is a member of the African American-led Coalition to Advance Public Safety, along with the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention, the Community-Based Public Safety Collective, and Cities United. In February 2023, this coalition launched an initiative to reduce gun violence across 12 cities including Baltimore, Maryland and Newark, New Jersey. 1

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-institute-for-criminal-justice-reform-nicjr/