~ Clearance rates show large disparity among local police departments – YouTube
Murder
~ Baltimore Police Solving Disturbingly Low Number Of The City’s Murders – YouTube
~ Chicago police solving fewer killings than other cities – Fox News
~ Cracking the case- Unsolved murders in Houston – YouTube
~ How Chicago police ‘clear’ homicide cases even when no one is charged – YouTube
~ In Chicago, killers are getting away with murder – VIDEO
~ NOPD working to improve low murder clearance rate – YouTube
~ Odds of getting away with murder in Chicago are better than 50 percent – WGN-TV – VIDEO
~ The place where murders are rarely solved – YouTube
~ Unsolved Murders Leave Families Frustrated – YouTube
Rape
~ No Justice- How The Chicago Police Department Has Failed To Solve Thousands Of Rape Cases In Last Decade – CBS Chicago – VIDEO
~ Report Gives Chicago Police ‘Beyond A Failing Grade’ For Poor Clearance Rate Of Sexual Assault Cases – CBS Chicago – VIDEO
Shooting
~ As gun violence rises in Fresno, more murders go unsolved – ABC30 Fresno – VIDEO
~ In Philly, Gun Violence Surges But Police Arrests and District Attorney Convictions Take a Nose Dive – NBC10 Philadelphia – VIDEO
~ Most gun-related homicides remain unsolved – YouTube
Car Jacking
~ Carjackings soar in Chicago, but few face arrest – WGN-TV – VIDEO
Arson
~ I-Team- Arson cases often go unsolved – YouTube
Mainstream News Articles
- ~ Chicago Police Clearance Rates By Race – WBEZ Chicago
- ~ Chicago’s Crime Problem Worsened By Uncooperative Communities – CBS Chicago
- ~ Clearance Rates How successful are the police at solving crimes? – Vera Institute for Justice
- ~ Crime solving rates ‘woefully low’, Met Police Commissioner says – BBC
- ~ How Many Crimes Do Your Police ‘Clear’- Now You Can Find Out – NPR
- ~ KPD’s 15 percent clearance rate far below 2017 national average – Killeen Daily Herald
- ~ LETTER Low crime solve rates in New Jersey are alarming – APP
- ~ Miami-Dade County is Worst in Florida at Solving Crime – Miami New Times
- ~ New Harris County numbers show many unsolved crimes – Click2Houston
- ~ Police solve just 2% of all major crimes – MSN
- ~ Police solve just 2% of all major crimes – Chicago Reporter
- ~ Police solve just 2% of all major crimes – The Conversation
- ~ The Police Aren’t Very Good At Their Main Job- Solving Crimes – HuffPost
- ~ The uncomfortable truth Baltimore has problems. And Democrats are to blame – The Guardian
Burglary
- ~ Colo. burglary victims unlikely to get results; data shows police have a hard time solving the crime – The Denver Channel
- ~ Most burglaries go unsolved – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Car Jacking
Murder
- ~ 40 percent of US murders went unsolved last year- report – New York Post
- ~ 75 shot: Examining Chicago police clearance rates for the most violent weekend of 2018 – Chicago Tribune
- ~ As Chicago killings surge, the unsolved cases pile up – Chicago Tribune
- ~ As gun violence rises in Fresno, more murders go unsolved – ABC30 Fresno
- ~ As killings go unsolved, Peoria families wait for justice – Journal Star – Peoria, IL
- ~ Baltimore ending the year with 32% homicide clearance rate, one of the lowest in three decades – Baltimore Sun
- ~ Baltimore sees second deadliest year on record in 2019, homicide clearance rate under 40 percent – Fox News
- ~ Chicago Murder Clearance Rate Worst in More Than 2 Decades – DNA Info
- ~ Chicago police solving fewer killings than other cities – Fox News
- ~ Chicago police solve one in every 20 shootings. Here are some reasons why that’s so low. – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Chicago police solved fewer than one in six homicides in the first half of 2018 – USA Today
- ~ Chicago Police Solved Just 26 Percent of the City’s 472 Homicides in 2015 – DNA Info
- ~ Chicago police’s homicide clearance rate dips in 2020 after improvement in recent years – Chicago Tribune
- ~ Chicago’s Criminals Are Getting Away With Murder – Chicago Magazine
- ~ Chicago’s Dismal Murder Solve Rate Even Worse When Victims Are Black – NPR.org
- ~ Chicago Police Department’s touted homicide-clearance improvement came by closing more cases without arrests – Chicago Sun-Times
- ~ Chicago’s Murder-Clearance Rate Falls to Historic Low – WBEZ Chicago
- ~ Chicago’s murder-clearance rate rose sharply in 2019, police say – Chicago Sun-Times
- ~ Getting away with murder- WGN Investigates the city’s alarmingly low number of solved cases – WGN-TV
- ~ Getting away with murder: The majority of U.S. crimes go unsolved, including 4 out of 10 homicides and two-thirds of rapes, FBI data shows – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Here’s Why Chicago Police Solve So Few Of The City’s Murders – WBEZ Chicago
- ~ Homicide database- Mapping unsolved murders in major U.S. cities – Washington Post
- ~ Homicides go unsolved as killings in Minneapolis rise – MPR News
- ~ Houston’s rate of unsolved murders is soaring. Experts say the police department is to blame – Houston Chronicle
- ~ Metro Police- Half of 2020 murders are unsolved – WSMV4 Nashville
- ~ Minneapolis homicide cases go unsolved as killings skyrocket – Stamford Advocate
- ~ More than half of Philly’s murders go unsolved – Inquirer ~ Murder ‘clearance’ rate in Chicago hit new low in 2017 – Chicago Sun Times
- ~ Murder With Impunity: An analysis of murders in 55 of America’s largest cities revealed block by block where police fail to catch killers. – Washington Post
- ~ Odds of getting away with murder in Chicago are better than 50 percent – WGN-TV
- ~ Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved – NPR
- ~ Reasons Behind Low Rate Of Solving Homicides in Minneapolis – NPR
- ~ Report Recommends Sweeping Changes To CPD Homicide Investigations To Boost ‘Dismal’ Murder Clearance Rate – CBS Chicago
- ~ Solving Chicago’s Murders Could Prevent More – The New Yorker
- ~ There’s a 40 percent chance you’ll get away with murder in America – Vox
- ~ ‘They don’t have answers’- Police struggle to clear cases with soaring homicide rate – MSN
- ~ Unsolved murders: Chicago, other big cities struggle; murder rate a ‘national disaster’ – USA Today
- ~ Visualizing CPD’s Homicide Problem – Chicago Magazine
- ~ With Many Homicides Unsolved, Families Hope For Justice In 2020 – CBS Chicago
- ~ You are more likely to win a coin toss than be caught for murder in Philadelphia – Editorial – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Rape
- ~ Are fewer rape cases being solved? – Click2Houston
- ~ Could Your Police Department Be Inflating Rape Clearance Rates? – ProPublica
- ~ Despite #MeToo, ‘clearance rate’ for rape cases at the lowest point since the 1960s – USA Today
- ~ No Justice- How The Chicago Police Department Has Failed To Solve Thousands Of Rape Cases In Last Decade – CBS Chicago
- ~ Rape cases in Virginia often go unsolved – NBC12
- ~ Report Gives Chicago Police ‘Beyond A Failing Grade’ For Poor Clearance Rate Of Sexual Assault Cases – CBS Chicago
- ~ Unsolved rape cases rise across U.S. – Portland Press Herald
- ~ When It Comes to Rape, Just Because a Case Is Cleared Doesn’t Mean It’s Solved — ProPublica
Shootings
- ~ 75 shot- Examining Chicago police clearance rates for the most violent weekend of 2018 – Chicago Tribune
- ~ 89 percent of shootings in Durham in 2020 are unsolved, police say – CBS 17
- ~ Chicago police solve one in every 20 shootings. Here are some reasons why that’s so low. – Chicago Tribune
- ~ In Philly, Gun Violence Surges But Police Arrests and District Attorney Convictions Take a Nose Dive – NBC10 Philadelphia
- ~ Nearly 70 percent of 2020 NYC shootings are unsolved- NYPD
- ~ Shooting arrests drop in Miami as cops struggle to solve cases – Miami Herald
Violent Crimes
- ~ Most of America’s violent crimes and property crimes go unsolved, and many victims don’t contact police at all – Business Insider
- ~ Most violent and property crimes in the U.S. go unsolved – Pew Research Center
- ~ SFPD dead last in solving violent crime – SFGate
- ~ The great majority of violent crime in America goes unsolved – Vox
Independent News Articles
- ~ As Rapes & Murders Go Unsolved, Cops Make Arrests Every 51 Seconds for Marijuana Possession – The Free Thought Project
- ~ Case Closed? How ‘Solved’ Murder Stats Are Misleading – Governing.com
- ~ Clearance rates for serious crime disturbingly low – GritsForBreakfast.blogspot.com
- ~ How police ‘cook the books’ on solved crime rates – The Conversation
- ~ JustFacts: What Clearance Rates Say About Disparities in Crime and Prosecution – Brennan Center for Justice
- ~ Mid-South Cold Case Initiative – Let’s make the Mid-South a safer place to live!
- ~ Most US crimes go unsolved and many victims don’t contact police – Insider
Arson
Murder
- ~ Case Closed How ‘Solved’ Murder Stats Are Misleading – Governing.com
- ~ Chicago Police Aren’t Solving Enough Murders – Hippo Reads
- ~ Chicago Police’s Homicide Clearance Rate Dips in 2020 – Officer.com
- ~ Cities Where It’s Easiest to Get Away With Murder – 24-7 Wall St
- ~ Murder Accountability Project- Clearance by Year
- ~ Murder Accountability Project- Clearance Rates
- ~ Murder Clearance Rates – The Pima Liberator
- ~ Nearly Half of Murderers Go Free – LewRockwell
- ~ Why Are American Cops So Bad at Catching Killers? – The Marshall Project
- ~ Why Unsolved Murders Are on the Rise in America – Freethink
Rape
- ~ How Police Make Unsolved Rape Cases Look Like Successes – Truthdig
- ~ Too Little, Too Late- The CPD’s Response to Sex Crimes – CAASE
Shooting
- ~ 70% of 2019 NYC shootings went unsolved under bad policies – Independent Sentinel
- ~ Police Are Failing To Catch Most Shooters In Many Big Cities. Often, They Shoot Again – Buzz Feed News
Violent Crimes
Reports
- ~ An Examination of Homicide Clearance Rates: Foundation for the Development of a Homicide Clearance Model – FULL REPORT PDF
- ~ Can Police Improve Homicide Clearance Rates? – FULL REPORT PDF
- ~ Clearing Up Homicide Clearance Rates – PDF
- ~ FBI — Table 25 – Percent of Offenses Cleared by Arrest or Exceptional Means by Population Group, 2015
- ~ How Effective Are Police? The Problem of Clearance Rates and Criminal Accountability by Shima Baradaran Baughman — SSRN
- ~ NIJ Journal 243 (Clearing Up Homicide Clearance Rates) – PDF
Facts and Stats
- ~ 10 Cities With Worst Murder Clearance Rates – Newser.com
- ~ Arson in the U.S.- clearance rate by type 2019 – Statista
- ~ Clearance rate – crime by type in the U.S. 2019 – Statista
- ~ FBI — Clearances
- ~ FBI — National Data
- ~ FBI — Regional Data
- ~ Most violent and property crimes in the U.S. go unsolved – Pew Research Center
- ~ U.S. Rape Clearance Data – ProPublica
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