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Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop by paulpauper on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:21PM (#27187225)
that is sorta a myth. they often get solved but it may take a long time. Murder cases for example are never declared unsolved unless a suspect is charged or the presumed perpetrator is dead due to age or other reasons.
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Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop by Avshalom on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:36PM (#27189674)
the majority of murder and aggravated assault in the US get cleared (solved) but "violent crime" falls short and everything else is woeful.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-r...

your local government may keep stats E.G.: https://www.cabq.gov/police/public-reports/annual-reports/un... , https://staging.policescorecard.org/ (or the extremely hard to navigate FBI's UCR page https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr/ )

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Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop by ravenstine on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:29PM (#27187331)
I presume you meant that they are never declared solved [unless...]? It seems pretty farfetched to say that murder cases are considered solved by default even when a reasonable person would consider them to be unsolved.
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Re:A police dog who cried drugs at every traffic stop by joebob42 on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:53PM (#27190157)
I think he means they are never declared unsolved on the sense that "this isn't solved and we are not going to think about it anymore, unsolved is it's final status"
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