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All this high speed life or death information and yet the clearance rate of solved homicides in the US has dropped from 70% in the 1980's to 50% today.
by psychlops 5y ago
All this high speed life or death information and yet the clearance rate of solved homicides in the US has dropped from 70% in the 1980's to 50% today.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoI expect this is true, and shows the ridiculous scope creep of government snooping and stalking on individual privacy for what it largely is, power grabs by individuals in government drunk on the power of control. That said, do you have a source?
- psychlops 5y agoI had read it previously elsewhere, then recently re-read it here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/12/as-murders-spiked-police-solved-about-half-in-2020 https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/12/as-murders-spi... I imagine the picture is a lot more complex than the charts make it out to be. For example, I'd be curious about rate trendlines of false imprisonment.