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one Retired New York Police Department Homicide detectives told Fox News Digital that major cultural and policy changes in 2020, including bail reform and George Floyd’s opposition, are causing low homicide case clearance rates in the United States.
According to the Murder Responsibility Project, the project tracks unresolved homicides, Homicide cleanup – That is, the percentage of homicides was identified in 2022, and the percentage of murderers arrested and referred for prosecution fell to an all-time low of 52.3%. According to the organization, customs clearance rates are above 60% by 2020. Reference data From the FBI.
“So there was a seismic change in law enforcement,” Teresa Leto told Fox News Digital.
New York Police Department officials responded to the scene of a shooting that injured multiple people near Flatbush in Brooklyn Borough, New York City on April 6, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Leto is a 30-year-old New York Police Department veteran who solved gang crimes and served as a homicide detective.
Leto said this was the 2020 event that changed the way streets were regulated and led to a drop in homicide clearance rates as the pandemic on the 199th.
“So the court then became out of reach. Everything inside the court slowed down,” she said. “Many trials did not go on. People were sent out of jail for security reasons. Many officials and support staff got sick. The rate of people who were sick was high. In the squad, the number of people in the detective team reduced the number of people investigating the crime. It really affected everything.”
She said that in March of that year, the situation was even in George Floyd Killed by Minneapolis police, driving an anti-police sentiment that stopped recruiting and led to early retirement of police officers, among other consequences.
Protesters in Austin, Texas on June 5, 2020 after George Floyd’s death. (Lola Gomez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, file)
“A lot of protests happened,” Leto said. “In response to the protests, they took many investigators away, and detectives pulled out of the squad, such as investigating terrorism, investigating homicide, rape and murder to deal with unrest throughout the streets of the United States.”
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According to Leto, this led to a sharp drop in arrests.
“There are recruitment issues in most police departments,” she said. “Because of George Floyd…rebound, people don’t want to join the police department. So, people don’t want to join the police department and then you come in less people, fewer people go into the detective department.”
Therefore, existing detectives started working more overtime. In what Leto calls the “overtime bubble”, some detectives have so much work that they are forced to retire, further depleting the detective unit.
George Floyd mural in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (AP)
“So you have a recruitment question, you have a retention question. Now, if you are researching New York City, I know, you have a lot of detective squads and their manpower is really low,” she said. So they doubled the case.”
The birth from Floyd’s radiation was a new social justice initiative such as “bail reform” that made things worse.
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“They make it easier for people to get out of prison without issuing bail because many people can’t afford it,” Leto said. “They think some crimes are non-violent. [third-degree robbery]This is forcibly taking property from a violent person and is considered a non-violent crime. ”
When violent criminals are released on bail, they return to crime and may even escalate their level of violence.
“So all of this adds less case handling, and fewer cases,” Leto said.
Washington Metropolitan Police investigated a shooting at the Potomac Street subway station in southeastern Washington on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Leto explains that, by its essence, the homicide requires more investigation than it was a few years ago.
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With security cameras now ubiquitous in public and private property, cell phone data is crucial to prosecution, and detectives gather relevant evidence and provide evidence of prosecution, which only takes more time.
“So even if you know deep down…who is the suspect is, you have to have evidence, you have to have DNA evidence, you have to have technology, you have to have video, you have to have mobile data to solve it,” Leto said.
