With modern forensics it's amazing murder & rape clearance rates are at all time lows

[Long Duck Dong]

I found that extremely interesting considering all the new modern forensic technologies and DNA databases. It's not like we don't have the capability when motivated. Serial murders peaked in the late 70s, early 80s and they are a tiny fraction of that today.

Here is a link for 2020 data but 2022 was the worst year ever for solving rapes and murders

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/01/12/as-murders-spiked-police-solved-about-half-in-2020

Burglary and arson are one of the few areas were we have gotten better at solving these crimes. I'm wondering if it's because private insurance agencies, in addition to the government, are involved in solving the crime.

Another interesting note is Honolulu is consistently one of the worst cities in solving murders, almost always top 5. Usually one of the 3 worst in the nation. How do you live on a freakin island and have a hard time solving murders compared to the mainland? :lol

[FultzNationRISE]

Well to be fair, a lot of cases were 'solved' in the old days by just throwing the wrong guy in prison:milton

[Long Duck Dong]

Well to be fair, a lot of cases were 'solved' in the old days by just throwing the wrong guy in prison:milton


I wouldn't say it happened "a lot", probably a fraction of 1 percent but did happen "a lot" more than it does today. The statistics in the link only go as far back as 1980. It certainly happened a lot more from the 1930s-1970s when the murder clearance rate was hovering around 90%

[ShawkFactory]

Given that forensics are so advanced people who do kill today are probably a lot more careful about it than they used to be.

[iamgine]

There are easily solved murders like ones involving a relative or neighbor.

And then there's the hard ones like random murders.

Perhaps back then the easy ones occur much more often.

[Long Duck Dong]

There are easily solved murders like ones involving a relative or neighbor.

And then there's the hard ones like random murders.

Perhaps back then the easy ones occur much more often.


Probably alludes to what ShawkFactory was saying