I want the say that I saw a statistic saying that murder clearance rates were only about 50%. That coupled with wrong conviction rates makes one wonder.
I genuinely don’t know if that’s true or not though.
I mean… it’s pretty much impossible to know how many undiscovered murders there are. Yes, you can do autopsies on everyone who’s declared dead and then figure out how many of them were killed, but there are a lot of ways to kill a person that won’t show up in an autopsy, especially in a hospital setting.
I want the say that I saw a statistic saying that murder clearance rates were only about 50%. That coupled with wrong conviction rates makes one wonder.
I genuinely don’t know if that’s true or not though.
I once had an off duty officer threaten me by mentioning the low rate of solved, and even lower convicted, murders.
That’s the kind of thing the FBI is interested in hearing. Please report it.
Jesus wept… I’m going to take a punt and guess this was in America?
I mean… it’s pretty much impossible to know how many undiscovered murders there are. Yes, you can do autopsies on everyone who’s declared dead and then figure out how many of them were killed, but there are a lot of ways to kill a person that won’t show up in an autopsy, especially in a hospital setting.