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In spite of skyrocketing US police budgets, cities' murder clearance rates are plummeting. (lemmy.ml)
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Article : https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high

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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

at least some of the “clearance” in the past was just picking a random black person and stringing them up then going out for doughnuts

I think the extra surveillance is stopping this enough for it to be a major source of the trend