like I know you have previously written about how lower murder rates = higher clearance rates because of a smaller denominator of total murders and I'm assuming less murder (and less crime in general) means more time to work on old cases ... so I feel like there's some interesting questions about the type of murders getting cleared...
Are there any good metrics on time to clearance?
like I know you have previously written about how lower murder rates = higher clearance rates because of a smaller denominator of total murders and I'm assuming less murder (and less crime in general) means more time to work on old cases ... so I feel like there's some interesting questions about the type of murders getting cleared...
I did a little digging into the longer-term trends on this topic via FBI data and put the data up here: https://theusaindata.pythonanywhere.com/murder_trends
There are definitely longer term trends in clearance by age, race, sex weapon, etc..
Good article. Interesting.Thanks.