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U.S. murder clearance or solve rates have hit an all-time low. Experts say mutual mistrust between police and some communities is creating a vicious cycle where unsolved killings breed more...
The share of murders going unsolved is on the rise in the United States, according to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS). As our chart shows, 2020 saw a record low of only 54.4...
A lack of respect for police officers and more killings by strangers have been major factors in America's soaring rate of unsolved murders, retired law enforcement officials told Newsweek.
A record number of murders across America are going unsolved. The rate at which murders nationwide were solved or cleared has dropped to around 50%. That's a record low.
In 2022, 63 percent of violent crimes in the United States that were reported to police went unsolved. This means that in a single year, there was no one arrested, charged, and referred for prosecution in over 800,000 violent crimes, including an estimated 10,000 homicides, 525,000 aggravated assaults, 169,000 robberies, and 98,000 rapes. 3.
In 2021, only 51% of homicides were solved, according to FBI statistics analyzed by the Murder Accountability Project. The country is seeing a continued decline in cleared cases compared to previous decades, when the rate was closer to 70%.
The FBI, in its annual Crime in the United States publication, estimates that there were 19,252 murders in 2023, down from 21,781 killings estimated in 2022. This is a decline of more than 2,500 killings.