Only 30 Percent Of Last Year’s Murders Have Been Solved – CBS Chicago https://chicago.cbslocal.com CBS 2: News, Weather, Sports On All Platforms Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3 https://chicago.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15116062/2019/06/cropped-chicago-favicon-512.png?w=32 Only 30 Percent Of Last Year’s Murders Have Been Solved – CBS Chicago https://chicago.cbslocal.com 32 32 162246134 Only 30 Percent Of Last Year’s Murders Have Been Solved https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/only-30-percent-of-last-years-murders-have-been-solved/ https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/01/25/only-30-percent-of-last-years-murders-have-been-solved/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:16:43 +0000 Only 30 Percent Of Last Year’s Murders Have Been Solved – CBS Chicago http://chicago.cbslocal.com/?p=236799 Murders in Chicago were down last year, but it’s a different story when it comes to the number of murders actually solved. ]]> CHICAGO (CBS) — Murders in Chicago were down last year, but it’s a different story when it comes to the number of murders actually solved.

As WBBM Newsradio’s Steve Miller reports, the murder clearance rate – the number of homicides that were solved the same year – has slipped.

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“Forensic evidence may need processing time… so it stands to reason that an investigation may extend beyond a calendar year,” a police spokeswoman said.

But in 1991, for example, the murder clearance rate was 80 percent in Chicago – 927 murders committed, 741 solved.

In the early 1990s as a whole, the rate was 72 to 73 percent.

By 2005, it had slipped to 42 percent.

Last year, it was 30 percent, meaning fewer than a third of the murders committed in 2011 were solved last year.

If there’s any good news, the 2011 figure is slightly up from 28 percent in 2010.

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