Just a tad misleading as the homicide rate has decreased overall. A more telling graph would be a histogram of the homicide rates per each demographic over time.
The murders of young children get cleared more because the parents are the obvious suspects, I’m guessing. (Though probably also because communities are going to be more passionate about solving crimes against children.)
I can’t tell the difference in some of the colors. Do they need to be all so similar?
This is interesting. 15-29 being lowest now (I think, tbh, not the easiest color choices since the legend is in a different order than the lines), would be because a lot of it is gang/drug related violence which is difficult to solve. That doesn’t really explain why the clearance rate for those victims was similar to most other groups prior to 1990, though.
Actually, the clustering of the ages before 1990 is interesting and my hypothesis here is that DNA and other forensic evidence has made it a lot harder for cops to just pin the crime on anyone “fitting the description” than it used to be.
I guess they don’t dare show this plot by victim race
![[OC] Trends in homicide clearance, by age of victim](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/dbse6hlg916e1-1920x1024.png)
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Tool: Python Flask, Data: Murder Accountability Project: [https://www.murderdata.org/p/data-docs.html](https://www.murderdata.org/p/data-docs.html)
Just a tad misleading as the homicide rate has decreased overall. A more telling graph would be a histogram of the homicide rates per each demographic over time.
The murders of young children get cleared more because the parents are the obvious suspects, I’m guessing. (Though probably also because communities are going to be more passionate about solving crimes against children.)
I can’t tell the difference in some of the colors. Do they need to be all so similar?
This is interesting. 15-29 being lowest now (I think, tbh, not the easiest color choices since the legend is in a different order than the lines), would be because a lot of it is gang/drug related violence which is difficult to solve. That doesn’t really explain why the clearance rate for those victims was similar to most other groups prior to 1990, though.
Actually, the clustering of the ages before 1990 is interesting and my hypothesis here is that DNA and other forensic evidence has made it a lot harder for cops to just pin the crime on anyone “fitting the description” than it used to be.
I guess they don’t dare show this plot by victim race
From [your source](https://www.murderdata.org/2024/09/some-good-news-finally-for-homicide.html),
>The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services division estimated that 57.8 percent of homicides in 2023 were … cleared …
All of the cohorts here are cleared well above that rate. What am I missing?
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