Unsolved killings reach a 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. While the rate at which murders are solved or "cleared" has been declining for decades, it has now dropped to slightlybelow 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. PhilipCook, a public policy researcher and professor emeritus at Duke Universityand 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. "Communities that are especially impacted by gun violence believe that the police are ineffective or indifferent, and as a result, they're less willing to cooperate and provide information the police need to have successful investigations," says Cook, who has several research articles on the topic coming out. "It is undermining whatever trust there is in the police. And it's a vicious circle," Cook says. _________________ Hire more police.
And give them Assault Rifles loaded with Hollow Tips, Night-Scopes, Camo, Bunker Busters, the works. What's better than a good guy with a gun? A good guy with lots of guns and all the other boy toys little weenies play soldier with.
Witness's are protected in Germany. Who in Chicago would testify? Soros money corrupted many justice systems, victims that fight back get charged or sued and even the cops risk getting sued with no financial help from the city.