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This won't be popular, but the clearance rate for "white people murders" is high because white people talk to the police. They can interview witnesses, family, etc.
For reasons that are entirely the fault of the police, more historically and to a lesser extent currently, it is much harder for them to gather information when a black person is killed in many situations.
I should also point out that it's not race-specific, it's marginalized communities. Where I live we have a huge homeless population with lots of addiction and severe mental health disorders. The activists claim that police don't care if one of the homeless is killed but the real reason the clearance rate is low is because "the community" won't talk to the police, doesn't have fixed addresses so hard to follow up, lots of potential suspects because so many people are prone to violence, have nothing to lose, mentally ill and addicted etc.
When a sex worker is killed it's harder to solve because she is constantly in dangerous situations with dangerous people so where do you start?
Comment by IlIllIlIllIlll at 07/12/2024 at 04:20 UTC
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Also If the crime didn't happen on camera, or wasn't discovered right away (if at all), it can be way harder to solve. Many times they just get a report of gunshots, find a guy dead on the side of the road, and nobody has seen anything, and there are no cameras. Which is obviously hard to solve.