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Homicide Clearance Rates Continue Their Decline

By Crime and Justice News | June 27, 2017
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Nationally, the homicide clearance rate fell from 64.8 in 2011 to 61.5 in 2015. In many urban areas, declines were sharper. In Baltimore, which has the second-highest U.S. homicide rate, 36.7 percent of killings were cleared in 2016, down from 46.4 percent in 2011 . . .

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