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
at least some of the “clearance” in the past was just picking a random black person and stringing them up then going out for doughnuts
I think the extra surveillance is stopping this enough for it to be a major source of the trend