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
There's no money in solving the poors' crimes. So you find some poor schmuch who killed another poor schmuck. Who cares? It's not as if they're actual people.
-The ones in charge, probably.