ShareThisAmericans are getting away with murder, about 6,000 of them a year. Nearly 185,000 killings from 1980 to 2008 are unsolved.
Despite advances in DNA techniques, forensic science and computers, the national clearance rate for murder and manslaughter cases has fallen from about 90 percent in the 1960s to below 65 percent, according to a Scripps Howard News Service study of crime records provided by the FBI.
Experts told SHNS reporter Thomas Hargrove that murders are tougher to solve because crimes of passion, where the killer is often known to the victim, have been replaced by drug- and gang-related killings where witnesses are reluctant to come forward.
The murders least likely to be solved are those of young, racial- or ethnic-minority males. The killer is identified by police about 67 percent of the time when the victim is black or Hispanic, and only 64 percent for black victims between 20 and 24 years old. But when the victim is a non-Hispanic white person of any age, a suspect is identified 78 percent of the time.
Clearance rates vary widely by jurisdiction. In 2008, Chicago solved 35 percent of its homicides; New Orleans, 22 percent; and Detroit, 21 percent. Yet Philadelphia was able to solve 75 percent of its killings; Denver, 92 percent; and San Diego, 94 percent.
One answer to solving murder cases is money -- to be able to quickly flood a crime scene with trained investigators, to pay their overtime and to invest in computerized tracking and case-management systems.
But the biggest single factor in increasing clearance rates appears to be political will in city hall and departmental will in the police force.
Philadelphia is a case in point. When in 2006 only 56 percent of murders were being solved, the mayor declared a "crime emergency" and brought in a new police chief, who in turn installed a new homicide supervisor and impressed on the detectives that clearing murder cases was a priority.
"There's nothing like having to sit in front of your captain and explain the status of every case," said Richard Ross, the city's deputy police commissioner. By 2008, the city's clearance rate had risen to 75 percent.
Other cities have achieved similar turnarounds. It's possible. People should not be allowed to get away with murder.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
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