To prevent more crime, police should do better In fact, the low clearance rates might be one thing that helps keep crime higher in the US than it would be otherwise. But the clearance rate numbers suggest that there is room for police to improve. The good news is the crime and murder rates fell in 2017, following two years of increases in violent crime and murder in particular. In some of the worst-off communities, David Kennedy, a criminologist at John Jay College, told Mother Jones in 2015, the clearance rate for murders and nonfatal shootings can fall even further - “down to single digits.” While police arrested someone in 63 percent of the killings of white victims, they did so in just 47 percent of those with black victims.” In an analysis of killings over the past decade in 52 of the US’s largest cities, the Post found that “black victims, who accounted for the majority of homicides, were the least likely of any racial group to have their killings result in an arrest. Wesley Lowery, Kimbriell Kelly, and Steven Rich recently reported on that disparity for the Washington Post. In some communities, the murder clearance rates, for example, drop even lower. What’s worse, these numbers only tell part of the story. In short, police aren’t making arrests for the majority of crimes. For property crimes, it drops below 20 percent.
For aggravated assault, it’s 53.3 percent. For murder, the clearance rate is 61.6 percent.
The figures show the “clearance rate,” the percentage of property and violent crimes that are resolved in an arrest or other means by police - essentially, cops’ solve rates for crime.
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