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Friday, September 27, 2024

Some good news (finally) for homicide clearance rates in America

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Homicide clearance rates improved somewhat in 2023, rising above the all-time low rate recorded the year before. The FBI's Criminal Just...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

How many murders does your state report to the FBI?

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The rates at which state and local police departments are reporting homicides to the FBI vary alarmingly in the United States, challenging p...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Murder and the legacy of the police killing of George Floyd

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Criminologists and other scholars continue to debate the causes of the recent surge in homicide in the United States. How much blame should ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Odds of solving homicides are a "coin flip" in America, CBS reports

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Homicide detectives nationwide are overloaded and overwhelmed by surging numbers of murders, resulting in unprecedented drops in homicide cl...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Homicide clearance in the United States drops to a new low

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Much attention has been given to the recently released 2020 Uniform Crime Report showing nearly a 30 percent increase in homicides in the Un...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Indiana serial killer claims "way more" victims in Illinois

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Convicted serial killer Darren Deon Vann told detectives he killed "way more" victims in Illinois than in Northwest Indiana where ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Do most homicides go unsolved in your town?

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The majority of homicides go unsolved in a growing number of major American cities, an alarming trend that has worsened significantly during...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Congress considers bipartisan Homicide Victims' Families Rights Act

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U.S. Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) have introduced the bipartisan Homicide Victims’ Families Rights Act to permit clo...
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Police departments failed to report nearly 3,000 homicides in 2018

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America’s coroners and medical examiners reported nearly 3,000 more homicides in 2018 than were reported by law enforcement officials – th...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

MAP Vice Chairman and visionary FBI analyst Eric Witzig dies at 73

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Eric Warren Witzig, a veteran District of Columbia homicide detective who went on to investigate major serial murder cases for the FBI, has ...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

Chicago Police make first arrest among 51 female strangulations

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Chicago Police have arrested Arthur Hilliard and charged him with the homicide of Diamond Turner, the first arrest to be made among a large ...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

MAP sues FBI (and others) for failure to report thousands of homicides

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The nonprofit Murder Accountability Project (MAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bu...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Chicago detectives update status of strangulation investigations

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Detectives for the Chicago Police Department report they have obtained DNA evidence from 18 of the 51 victims of unsolved female strangulati...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Half of Native American homicides not reported to FBI

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Law enforcement agencies failed to notify the FBI about nearly half of homicides of American Indians and Alaskan Natives commit...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Black murders accounted for all of America's clearance decline

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Declining homicide clearance rates for African-American victims accounted for all of the nation’s alarming decline in law enfor...