Police solved just over half of 2020 murder cases as departments faced officer shortages caused by the pandemic and widespread protests in support of Black Lives Matter.
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Police in the U.S. were able to solve only 54% of murder cases in 2020, a problem that can be traced to officer shortages"The nation's police and sheriff's departments were overwhelmed and understaffed in 2020 to meet the surging demand for their investigative services," read sa report by the Murder Accountability Project, who .
The 2020 drop in case"clearance rates," the rate of homicides that result in the arrest of the offender, was the largest single year drop since thethe metric in 1965. It also represented the worst case clearance rate during the same time period, falling from a high of above 90% in 1965 to the new low of 54% in 2020.
The declining clearance rate comes at the same time that the U.S. has seen a surge of violent crimes and murders, with the 30% rise in homicides in 2020 also being the largest ever single-year increase on record.Demonstrators hold a sign reading "Defund the police" during a protest over the death of a Black man, Daniel Prude, after police put a spit hood over his head during an arrest on March 23, in Rochester, New York, U.S. September 6, 2020.
Murder Accountability Project Chairman Thomas Hargrove said much of the problem stems from a lack of support by elected officials for
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