The way this article talks about murder rates is super unhelpful. What is the rate of unsolved murders per capita? That’s what’s really needed to say that the rate is increasing. They talk about a lot of potential reasons that murders go unsolved these days, but they missed the one that’s easiest to check: what if the types of murders that are easier to solve are dropping faster than those that are harder to solve as crime rates have been dropping in the US for decades?
The way this article talks about murder rates is super unhelpful. What is the rate of unsolved murders per capita? That’s what’s really needed to say that the rate is increasing. They talk about a lot of potential reasons that murders go unsolved these days, but they missed the one that’s easiest to check: what if the types of murders that are easier to solve are dropping faster than those that are harder to solve as crime rates have been dropping in the US for decades?
looks like there’s been a steady rise of murders per capita in the past decade, and a sharp rise in the past few years https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate