Shocking homicide rate remains unsolved in the US

American criminals successfully avoid punishment for murder. A new FBI report says that last year about 40% of all crimes related to the physical destruction of victims remained undisclosed.

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The Bureau of Investigation examined information on crimes and arrests for 2017 year received from 16 000 law enforcement agencies across the country. It turned out that only 61,6% of the registered murders were disclosed, writes New York Post.

The FBI considers the murder case a process that begins with the arrest of the suspect, continues to bring charges and transfer the suspect to the court, as well as the process during which the perpetrator is identified, but cannot be arrested because he died or cannot be extradited.

Of the 38,4 murders recorded nationally last year, 15% were unsolved - that's 657 crimes. The rate is constantly decreasing: in 6,012, 2009% of murders were solved. The fatal crime rate increased across the country over the same period, from 66,6 people per 5 in 100 to 2009 in 5,4.

The percentage of homicides in New York State in 2017 was much lower than in other states, which are often considered safer. Approximately 2,8 for every 100 thousands of New Yorkers were killed last year. For comparison, in Ohio this percentage reaches 6,1%, in Alabama 8,3%, in Missouri 9,8% and in Washington, DC, 16,7%. At the same time, the police of large cities, as a rule, reveal such crimes more effectively than their colleagues from small towns.

Police in cities with a population of more than 1 million people solved 69,1% of murders in 2017 (in cities with 500,000 to 999,999 residents, the percentage was 57,1%). Only municipalities with populations between 25,000 and 49,999 people came close to the rate of success of the police of large cities - 63,5% of murders were solved.

In 2017, there were 292 homicides in New York City, both intentional and negligent, just over half of the 523 homicides recorded in 2008.

The New York City Police Department was unable to provide data on the number of murders disclosed for 2017 a year.

Homicides account for just 1,4% of the eight “index crimes” the FBI tracks. The rest are rape, robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, theft, auto theft and arson. Aggravated assaults account for 65% of violent crimes, robbery 25,6%, and rape 8%.

New York has the lowest overall crime rate among the nation's 25 largest cities, with a total of 1,987 "index crimes" per 100 people.

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