Bad News For America’s Unsolved Murder Numbers… Here’s How We Compare To Other Countries
You knew it was bad, did you think it was THIS bad?
To hear elected politicians talk about it, the only kind of violence the public needs to be concerned about is the kind involving a school and some sort of a Scary Black Rifle.
The problem with that premise is that pretty much every one of those crimes ends up with the killer caught, either dead or alive. That makes the statistic we’re about to look at even uglier.
The clearance rate for homicides in the United States in 2020 dipped to around 50%, continuing a downward trend that has plagued the country for the last 40 years. America now ranks last among Western nations for murder clearance rates.
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The rate at which murders are solved decreased from 71% in 1980 to an all-time low of almost 50% in 2020, making America the first developed nation where most homicides go unsolved, according to Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project.
With stats like this, how are we supposed to believe that human lives — of any color whatsoever — genuinely matter?
How are we supposed to take calls for ‘justice’ seriously when half of murders in America are going unsolved?
[Hargrove] said that across the country, there are not enough detectives or technicians available to investigate, gather, or process evidence to solve a murder properly. Increasing the caseload for existing homicide detectives can also severely affect the clearance process, per the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance.
“No homicide detective should be asked to handle more than four, maybe five murders a year, and that’s pushing it,” Hargrove said. “To do anything more is just a formula for failure.”
“And frankly, that is not happening. Homicide detectives are getting a far heavier load than that all over the country,” he continued. -Washington Examiner
There are several variables in this equation and people will argue about
factors that might be driving this crime on the causation side. But in all of that, we must not lose sight of the people who are on the receiving end of the violence itself.
There is the need to find the offenders and protect the general public from them, because in all likelihood there are a relative handful of offenders responsible for a significant number of these killings, and the people most directly in harm’s way are the very people activist groups claim to care about so deeply.
