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yogaballcactus t1_j224qex wrote

2200+ shootings and only 518 court cases. That’s ridiculous. We need to start solving more than one shooting in four.

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Big-Compote-5483 t1_j23dvgd wrote

The clearance rate for murders is below 30%. With those odds murderers gonna keep murderin'

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Hoyarugby t1_j253jtg wrote

In the fantastic book Ghettoside about gun violence in america, the "protagonist" of the book, an LAPD detective, argues that a 30% clearance rate is actually even worse than it looks. He classes ~30% of murders as "self solvers" - murders that don't require much, if any, investigating to solve. Stuff like murder-suicides, cases where the shooting happened in front of a cop, cases where the killer walked into the police station to confess. A clearance rate of 30-40% in practice means that only a few murders beyond those self-solvers are actually getting solved

The book also discusses how low clearance rates create low clearance rates - instead of expecting the state to solve the murder of their friends/family, individuals instead take vigilante justice into their own hands, but this reality just creates cycles of violence and leads to accidental killing of bystanders and misidentified people

Can't recommend the book enough - though it's depressing because it was written in the first half of this decade when murders were steeply declining nationwide, and concludes on an optimistic note. Whereas now nationally we're at levels we haven't seen since the 90s

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Big-Compote-5483 t1_j25t18a wrote

Hey friend, thank you for the book recommendation! Ordered a copy today 🍻

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Manowaffle t1_j23oc6a wrote

Would probably help if half the police actually showed up to work, instead of collecting disability.

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cambridge_dani t1_j24d8cb wrote

The really sad part is the not so subtle racism that determines some murders as just “ok”

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LurkersWillLurk t1_j22aofe wrote

Why would Larry Krasner do this? (/s)

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TreeMac12 t1_j23xaid wrote

>Why would Larry Krasner do this?

He lives in one of the few areas with no red dots. Helen Gym, too.

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ScottishCalvin t1_j24jhby wrote

Given that they're almost all criminals killing other criminals. there's not too much to incentivize the police. If two meth dealers want to shoot each other over $30 then I'd say go right ahead.

Plus add in all the 'sniches get stiches' hood mentality, it's not like anyone's going to offer any help in naming suspects. Half the people in those area see the murders as a sign of a job well done, about their drug-selling crew showing how should be shown 'respec' for being such towering leaders of industry

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