WaPo: Where Killings Go Unsolved

Tenacious D · Jun 7, 2018

1. This is excellent journalism.
2. It’s surprising that only about 1/2 of the murders lead to an arrest, but particularly in today’s “CSI” society, and where it’s easy to think that every fiber, bead of sweat, drop of blood will be detected and will undoubtedly lead directly to the killer.

The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common but arrests are rare.
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As part of an ongoing examination, The Washington Post has compiled and mapped up to a decade of homicide arrest data from 50 of America’s largest cities.

Police blame the failure to solve homicides in these places on insufficient resources and poor relationships with residents, especially in areas that grapple with drug and gang activity where potential witnesses fear retaliation. But families of those killed, and even some officers, say the fault rests with apathetic police departments. All agree that the unsolved killings perpetuate cycles of violence in low-arrest areas.

Detectives said they cannot solve homicides without community cooperation, which makes it almost impossible to close cases in areas where residents already distrust police. As a result, distrust deepens and killers remain on the street with no deterrent.

“If these cases go unsolved, it has the potential to send the message to our community that we don’t care,” said Oakland police Capt. Roland Holmgren, who leads the department’s criminal investigation division. That city has two zones where unsolved homicides are clustered.
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Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...e-murders-go-unsolved/?utm_term=.f6fe0b15c4d8

lumberjack4 · Jun 7, 2018

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