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Re:Inside Pornhub by iudqnolq on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:01PM (#30444874)
When the NYPD have a guess at who did around 30% of murders, compared to the London police at 90% - and despite more funding than a small army - you have to wonder if the problem is purely resources. In fact, the vast majority of police are assigned to tasks like traffic enforcement, in part because that brings in more reliable revenue.

(I'm using "guess at" to refer to clearance rate because if the cops tell a prosecutor they think you murdered someone and the prosecutor says it was obviously someone else so they're not charging you that's generally counted as cleared.)

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Re:Inside Pornhub by volkl48 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:49PM (#30447678)
> When the NYPD have a guess at who did around 30% of murders

This is false.

NYC homicide clearance rates for 2021 look to be over 70% for the year, with Q4 2021 at 78%. (worst quarter - 55%, best - 86%).

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/cleara...

> In fact, the vast majority of police are assigned to tasks like traffic enforcement

NYPD is not known exactly known for a particularly large amount of traffic enforcement, to the point that I think you'd find most residents wish they did more of it.

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Re:Inside Pornhub by giantg2 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:54PM (#30448415)
30% getting away with arguably our worst crime seems like it doesn't bode well for the clearance rate of lesser crimes.

I wonder if a large contributor to the higher London clearance rate is related to socioeconomic factors or surveillance laws/systems.

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Re:Inside Pornhub by vgeek on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @07:49PM (#30448910)
At a national level, the clearance rate for murders is ~61% per https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... . Property crimes are <20%.

The FBI's UCR Data Explorer used to give you an easy to use breakdown of crimes and clearance rate at the national/state/metro/city level, but unfortunately they redesigned it and now it is both harder to use and presents less data. I guess that is one way to hide data that isn't favorable? There seems to be more emphasis on the danger presented to law enforcement officers, but the #1 cause of death for officers by a large margin, per https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2021, has been COVID.

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Re:Inside Pornhub by giantg2 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @07:54PM (#30448945)
Yeah, I just gave the 30% unsolved in response to the comment about NYC having 70% clearance rates on homicides.
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Re:Inside Pornhub by scarface74 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:11AM (#30453019)
How much of that clearance rate is railroading innocent people through the justice system and an overworked underfunded public defenders office?
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Re:Inside Pornhub by iudqnolq on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:34AM (#30464573)
You're right, thank you. I mis-remembered, in NY it's major crimes that's around 30%.
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Re:Inside Pornhub by ummonk on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:47PM (#30448338)
Isn't London well known for having way more surveillance cameras than most cities?
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Re:Inside Pornhub by vkou on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:48PM (#30449314)
Maybe in the early 2000's, when stories about it kept making evening television, but nowadays, the rest of the developed world is roughly on par with it.
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