Only 42% of DC murder cases were closed after anti-police movement and it could get worse, criminologists say
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Only two out of every five murders in Washington, D.C. were closed in 2021, according to D.C. Witness. Criminologists said the anti-police sentiment made witnesses less willing to cooperate with detectives, leading to less murder arrests.
The main reason so few murder suspects were arrested is because of how far trust in the police dropped in the fallout after an officer killed George Floyd in May 2020, the criminologists said. Witnesses, as a result, became less willing to cooperate with detectives.
"If people are less confident in the police, want to have less contact with the police, they're not going to be as cooperative," a University of Missouri-St. Louis criminology professor, Richard Rosenfeld, told Fox News Digital. "The police therefore lose that valuable form of assistance as they're trying to solve homicides."
"The police can't clear crimes on their own," Rosenfeld continued. "Those of us who happened to witness the event are key ingredients in the ability of the police to clear a homicide or any other serious crime with an arrest."
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