Could be.
Posted on 11/22/2024 2:20:45 PM PST by Leaning Right
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been trumpeting his police department’s homicide clearance rate of nearly 54%, the highest level in recent years. But a deeper dive into the data shows only a fraction of those “solved” murder cases have resulted in an actual arrest or charges, WGN Investigates has found.
Most notably, police closed 117 homicide cases this year due to what’s called “bar to prosecute.” Simply put, it means police believe they identified the killer, but prosecutors would not approve charges.
(Excerpt) Read more at wgntv.com ...
Eugene Roy, retired Chicago Police Chief of Detectives, said he believes a main reason for the spike is that under Kim Foxx, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office has set an often-unreachable standard.
“The detectives are going above and beyond,” he said. “It’s the state’s attorney’s office that’s being reluctant to charge.”
Yep. And add in the fact that Chicago - like so many other cesspools - under report their true crime stats in the first place.
Criminals in jail and prison cannot be on the street helping the democRATS reach their goals.
Police and prosecutors can be absolutely sure who killed a victim but without witnesses or physical evidence or a confession it’s pointless to go to trial.
I’m sure this is a problem with a lot of gang murders.
First reaction was obvious “you call that solving a murder?” second reaction is.
If a giant big city police department in a city with a huge murder rate is forced to call murders solved just by guessing who did it and then moving on to the next case without charges, then what kind of horrible, unfathomable corruption will that lead to over years, what kind of rot and bribery, and criminal corruptions will become routine in such a department and within the criminal communities they interact with and that they perform this interactive dance with over time and careers and generations?
In other words, they had no evidence, probably just a hunch.
Could be.
I don’t think most of us can imagine the resources it takes to solve one real “who dun it” murder, much less 6-800 a year. Most of the ones they solve are probably people caught literally with a smoking gun. Then you’ve got the shortage of police, prosecutors who won’t prosecute, and the judges who won’t put them in jail.
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