Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by NoImmatureAdHom on Monday April 26, 2021 @05:40PM
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Interesting. You've made me revise my estimate of the % of murders that are due to gang violence up.
My gut says you're right, Chicago probably doesn't generalize well to the rest of the U.S. It could be that there are huge swaths of the country where there basically are no gangs, and so all murders are not gang-related. But still, the data you're showing makes the federal numbers seem way too low...
This [0] suggests that about 1/3 of murders in the U.S. go unsolved.
Re:Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020
by cozzyd on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:01AM
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Well the FBI UCR criteria might be very different from whatever CPD uses. It's amazing how much of an outlier Illinois is in homicide clearance rate...
My gut says you're right, Chicago probably doesn't generalize well to the rest of the U.S. It could be that there are huge swaths of the country where there basically are no gangs, and so all murders are not gang-related. But still, the data you're showing makes the federal numbers seem way too low...
This [0] suggests that about 1/3 of murders in the U.S. go unsolved.
0: https://projectcoldcase.org/cold-case-homicide-stats/