In spite of skyrocketing US police budgets, cities' murder clearance rates are plummeting.
(lemmy.ml)
Article : https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high
Another graph on budgets
Japan has an insanely high conviction rate. And the cops also don’t bother filing a case unless they’re pretty sure it’s a spam (e: lol) slam dunk
Tokyo Vice, while a drama, actually portrays Japanese police work in a roughly accurate sense. And the whole bit with how the yakuza have their tentacles into EVERYTHING is closer to the truth than many would like to believe.