Posted on 07/01/2022 7:35:10 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
A shocking report revealed that almost half of the nation’s murder cases go unsolved, including around three out of four Chicago murder cases, a CBS News investigation team found.
Using FBI crime statistics to determine their findings, the team found that the national clearance rate for murder cases — meaning solved cases — in major U.S. urban cities had sunk to its lowest levels in over 50 years. The team primarily used data from 2020 as that year was the most recent release from the FBI.
Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project told CBS News that from June 2020 to December 2020, most murder cases went unsolved. Furthermore, the number of homicides recorded in 2020 far outpaced past years.
“It’s a 50-50 coin flip,” Hargrove said on whether a case is solved or not.
The murder and violent crime rate began to rise in the U.S. at the same time the Black Lives Matters riots and the "Defund the Police" movement gained national notoriety in the summer of 2020. In that year, only 51 percent of murder cases were solved, according to the FBI.
Police also reported that understaffed and overworked departments led to a shortage of resources to solve most homicide cases.
Some examples of data across major urban areas include the Minneapolis Police Department, which documented a clearance rate of about 53 percent, and the Los Angeles Police Department, which recorded about 55 percent rate clearance rate, according to FBI crime statistics via CBS News.
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) did not submit clearance data to the FBI, which led the investigation team to submit a freedom of information request. They found that in 2020, the CPD clearance rate was 44 percent.
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“Find on Page” doesn’t find it. I’ll look at your other link.
Can’t find it there either.
From what I got from Wikipedia, Atlanta has a murder rate of 16.41 per 100,000.
The worst I see is St. Louis at 66.07. Baltimore: 55.07. Those are the only 2 above 50.
“Many major cities (and states?) are experts at UNDER-reporting their murders and other violent crimes.
This has apparently been going on for quite a few years, and it’s apparently well-known.”
We covered it on FR years ago. Seems a robbery that had someone killed is not reported as a murder or even a robbery. Local politicians label it something like “shop lifting”.
I am not sure that rate is the important number.
Total number of murders in top ten metropolitan areas divided by total number of murders in the entire country is the number we are looking for.
I’ve worked backwards from the rate and the population to calculate the number of murders.
The problem is “top ten metropolitan areas”. The metropolitan table from the FBI doesn’t list the Atlanta area, and there may be other omissions.
There may be a city table. But many times, the population within a city’s city-limits is only a fraction of the population of the metropolitan area, so you don’t get an accurate picture.
But the rate is important too since what I have for Switzerland is the rate, (only 0.5 murders per 100,000). I might try to get to some mixture of U.S. metropolitan areas and rural areas similar to Switzerland.
I think we all know that the murder problems in the U.S. are centered in our large metropolitan areas, mostly ones that have been under Democrat control for 50+ years.
I’ll get back to you.
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