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I think another big negative here is just the fact that it shifts police org's focus towards crimes where they can "fund" themselves. I repeat this statistic a
by hfourm 11y ago
I think another big negative here is just the fact that it shifts police org's focus towards crimes where they can "fund" themselves.
I repeat this statistic a lot, but the solved murder rate has fallen from ~90% in the 60s to ~60% in recent years. You'd think with all our new forensic technology and lower overall murder rates it would be opposite.
- kevin_thibedeau 11y agoThat 90% figure isn't reliable given the tendency to force confessions out of "known troublemakers" that was far more rampant in the 60s.
- hfourm 11y agoMaybe, but I still doubt that equates to a 30% drop. I am more a fan of the whole, increase in division between community and its police leading to lack of informants among other things, idea.
- kbenson 11y agoThere's lots of ways to read the numbers. Total murders is about the same as the high in the 60s, ~14k, but instead of 200 million people, we have well over 300 million[1]. That's over a 33% drop in per-capita murders. 1: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm