Clearance Rate "Dips"
The article limits itself to a single mention of the Chicago clearance rate, instead lumping all of Cook County into a single category and comparing it to others:
In Cook County, only about one third of murders since 1980 have been solved, according to a Scripps Howard News Service study of crime records provided by the FBI. Police solved only 35 percent of the murders in Chicago in 2008, the FBI records show.
"We'd expect that -- with more police officers, more scientific tools likes DNA analysis and more computerized records -- we'd be clearing more homicides now with more resources," said Bill Hagmaier, executive director of the International Homicide Investigators Association and retired chief of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. "But the clearance rates have fallen drastically."
"more police officers"? In what fantasy-land is this former feeb living? We're seeing layoffs across the board and hiring freezes to keep manpower down. And in just the past three years, the CPD alone is short around what? 400 detectives? And there hasn't been a class promoted off the existing list in over 2.5 years. We won't even go into the hatchet being taken to overtime budgets.
That clearance rate isn't going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
That clearance rate isn't going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
13 Comments:
I BET THE NUMBER OF EVENT NUMBERS WENT WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY UP!!!!!
I just heard on WGN radio this AM that the Showcase Window of the WGN Radio Studio was shot out during the night.
Now, maybe, WGN radio and TV and the Tribune will notice all the problems in the downtown area. It's about time someone noticed and talked about it. It's Suburban kids? If they are, most of them are transplanted Chicago kids. You know how it is when it happens in your backyard.
Who knows, the Sun Times and maybe the other radio and TV stations will begin to think there is a problem.
OK. Is there EVER going to be another Detectives class. I believe 15 more are retiring next month.
THANKS ALSO TO THE INCOMPETENT FELONY REVIEW, WACKO LAW STUDENTS, AND THE FEDERAL JUDGES. tHUGS KNOW THAT COOPERATING WITH THE SYSTEM IS A JOKE. THEY TAKE CARE OF MATTERS THEMSELVES.WELCOME THE BIRTH OF ANARCHY
Subtract the domestic related homicides and the clearance rate will dip even lower…
The clearance rate will move. Move down, that is.
This is a great post SCC, maybe they will eliminate the position of Detective and have Patrol handle everything. Let's not clear any crimes by having a lack off a Invesigative Unit personal and stats will go down. Who knows if there were more Detectives the Serial Murder may have caught after his first attempt. I have an idea let's hire more Police Officers so crime can go down without the farse of munipulated stats, moving officers from area to another.
nope,no detective for you!!!eat some more soup..it good for you!
SCC, I must emphatically disagree with you about clearance rate in Chicago. It is going somewhere! DOWN!!! DOWN!!! DOWN!!!
Da Mayor fiddled while Chicago burned.
The clearance rate is not going to get better anytime soon. Interesting to me that the clearance rate dropped along with the drop in overtime. Ya know, "Pick the case up tomorrow, they will still be dead." "You do not need all those tact guys down on the murder. We will leave ya just two of them to go search for (Fill in the Blank) witnesses, offenders, co-offenders, transport, etc."
I said it before and I will say it again. The only people who really care about the "clearance rate" are the detectives and tact/beat officers who still want to "catch the bad guy." We are not keeping stats, it is just what we want do.
"In what fantasy-land is this former feeb living?" -- SCC
In the same one created for the public with all of these "CSI" shows, which do two things --
* Make every tiny department in Podunk, Neb. feel inadequate without its own CSI van, ensemble of white coveralls, etc.
* Make deranged criminals stuff the bodies in a stolen car somewhere off by the railroad tracks and then soak it with gas and light it to destroy all those "fibers" and so forth the TV keeps talking about.
"The Showcase Window of the WGN Radio Studio was shot out during the night.."
These places are, I think, deliberate nut magnets to draw publicity, like Channel 7's street-level studio the guy drove the car into. (I was watching. Boy, did Ravi Biaichwal jump.)
Suburban, s__t. Try using the men's room at Hiawatha Park without a bunch of shrieking teenage girls following you in there on double-dares -- if you can get past the phalanx of sullen, cursing, black-clothed skateboard-bangers outside.
Look at all the FOP stickers on the new SUVs and soccer-mom vans at the curb outside. I wonder whose kids these are...
The national average for clearing homicides in large metropolitan police departments is just over 70%. So if the CPD doubled the number of murders solved in Chicago, they would still be below average. Great Job!!
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