I think it’s a multifaceted problem. Police data is being scrutinized more heavily, arrests and forced confessions are being broadcasted widely, more and more people have wised up to the golden rule of don’t talk to cops, and police are tasked with so many stupid/useless things like the drug war, stopping abortions, arresting kids in schools whose parent just died of cancer, that they don’t devote enough resources to actual crimes like murders. Plus, you know, people are lazy in general and cop unions are the best at protecting their members.
But we have so many Podcasters and suburban moms on the case!
Tonight on Only Murders in the US…
Cops are on strike. If their racism is going to be questioned, they don’t want to do their job.
They’ll gladly keep absorbing all those tax dollars though, and you better give them a COL increase in next year’s budget or else fire and brimstone will rain down from the sky.
Give tickets to car owners instead of drivers, enforce traffic laws with cameras like the rest of the developed world, and move the 80% of cops currently on traffic to working real crimes (with a bit more training, less in the warrior mentality, too.)
Americans are so corrupted by profit mechanisms and resistant to effective change.
Interesting. The murder rate has gone down over the last three decades and the clearance rate went down with it. You would think police could focus more time on solving the fewer number of murders. Or maybe they are just unable to force confessions these days.
I think it’s all the forensic crime TV shows. The layperson now has a pretty clear understanding of how to not get caught.
Graph label is cut off but it goes from 1960 to 2020. Was the clearance rate in 1960 really above 90%? I’m surprised.
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