Lack of police resources leads to lowest solved murder rate ever recorded: Report
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Police solved just over half of 2020 murder cases as departments faced officer shortages caused by the pandemic and widespread protests in support of Black Lives Matter.
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The 2020 drop in case "clearance rates," the rate of homicides that result in the arrest of the offender, was the largest single year drop since the FBI began tracking the metric in 1965. It also represented the worst case clearance rate during the same time period, falling from a high of above 90% in 1965 to the new low of 54% in 2020.
The declining clearance rate comes at the same time that the U.S. has seen a surge of violent crimes and murders, with the 30% rise in homicides in 2020 also being the largest ever single-year increase on record.
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