Comment by watwut
2 years ago
Murder clearance rates went DOWN last decades in USA. Less of major crime is solved.
Plus majority of it never went through tria, because trial is just too much risk. So, there are not all that many actual checks and balances
That's a multi faceted problem. Murder rates also were halves since the 80s in the US, it's not necessarily the same type of criminality
In other countries the clearance rates are as high as ever. The US is an exception in many aspects in the West, closer to third world countries depending on what metric you look at
> overall, findings showed that the clearance rate in Finland and Switzerland in the years of analysis was very high, in some years of the analysis even reaching 100 percent. Internationally, these rates are extraordinary high, even in comparison with other European countries such as Italy (67 percent and, later, 78 percent) , Estonia (80 percent), England & Wales (85 percent) and France (80 percent)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14773708187648...