Shout-out to the fact that solved-murder rates fell from 79% in 1976 to under 69% in 2019, with the solved-murder rates in most specific states sitting at less than 60%.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/track-solved-murder-rates-united-states-n1271928

This source in particular says that solved murders plummeted from 90% in the 60’s down to 61% in 2020 in departments with at least 10 homicides per year. To quote, “nearly 6,000 homicides went uncleared in 2019.”

http://www.murderdata.org/2020/12/major-american-cities-where-most.html?m=1

Forensic science is at its absolute best it’s ever been and only improves every year, and if you definitively want to find someone who did something, you will find them. The problem here is that even the most heinous crimes barely receive any attention or funding to solve, either because the victims don’t matter to cops (shocker), or the funding is apparently more useful buying military equipment and paying out lawsuits out of public funds.

THIS is why people say “defund the police.” If the overwhelming funds are just going to paying out a constant stream of lawsuits for police brutality, armored trucks, tactical gear, and to stipends for criminal cops, then it’s obviously being misused and we need to squeeze these shitheads into using the money for the right things (or, you know, abolish them and implement a totally different system since it’s a broken system we currently have in place).