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St. Louis police have failed to solve nearly 60% of homicides committed since 2017
(news.stlpublicradio.org)
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How does this compare!?
For major cities in the Midwest?
Pretty middle of the road.
The reason people say "most murders are by a spouse/partner" is because those are the easiest to solve, and cops are pretty shit at solving crimes.
It's waaaaay more accurate to say "most murders who are caught killed a spouse/partner"
Hard to say since news organizations had to sue this department to get these numbers and pretty much every department is always trying to sweep dirt under the rug like that
According to the FBI, around 51% of murders in 2021 were solved. So this is just a bit lower than the federal numbers. The number doesn’t shock me, I think solving a murder is very hard and technology can only offer so much more info. Proving murder beyond a doubt is also very difficult, like OJ. We all know he killed his ex wife and her boyfriend, but prosecutors couldn’t prove he did it within the court context. An “unsolved” murder that has a solution.
That’s 51% in one year though, in STL if they only did 60% over the 6 year span of 2017 to 2023 then they haven’t hit 51% in any given year, unless they just completely stopped post covid.
I live in stl and can say it feels like they did completely stop post covid but I don’t know for sure, I know they had a “silent protest” for a while while Kim Gardner was in office but that’s over now that she’s resigned as circuit attorney and someone competent took over.