Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist

Re:Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:32AM (#15080928)

Wikipedia (what it's worth) says 97,6 % clearance rate for murder in Germany (2008). With 662 murders (2011) this would mean ~16 murderers get away.

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Re:Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist by jacquesm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:42AM (#15081003)

Clearance is not conviction.

And lack of clearance does not mean lack of guilt, more likely if there is no clearance it means that there is no case and most likely not murder.

You can use this as a proxy for the police 'solving' crimes but it would be much better to use the actual rate at which murderers are convicted because the police do not always get it right and do not always manage to establish guilt of the defendant beyond reasonable doubt.

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Re:Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @09:13AM (#15081229)

Yes. There are many differences, depending on culture, police set up etc. The high conviction rate of nearly 100% in Japan due to the way police/justice works there comes to mind. Only could find conviction rate for all crimes (not only murder and manslaughter) which is around 80% in Germany.

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Re:Kim Wall: Headless body identified as missing journalist by tyingq on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:39AM (#15080987)

Denmark, the place in question, seems to be at about 5 of 50, or 10% unsolved. http://aftertheamericancentury.blogspot.com/2017/01/5-murder...

I believe the UK is higher.

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