Year Total number of homicides Murders from this year that are solved Murders from a prior year solved this year Unsolved homicides this year Percent of homicides solved (this year’s cases only) Clearance rate (homicides solved this year + prior years combined)
2023 (as of 6/2/23) 72 34 20 38 47% 75%
2022 200 93 22 107 47% 58%
2021 200 81 28 119 41% 55%
2020 263 79 21 184 30% 38%
2019 194 61 13 133 31% 38%
2018 187 77 23 110 41% 53%
2017 205 77 31 128 38% 53%
2016 188 75 21 113 40% 51%
2015 188 67 25 121 36% 49%

In the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, cleared cases in a particular calendar year can include homicides solved that year but that occurred in a prior year. A clearance by arrest means that the police department developed sufficient evidence to establish probable cause for an arrest. Hence, the crime is cleared for statistical purposes. Sources: ºüÀêÊÓƵ Police Department; FBI’s Uniform Crime Report “Offenses Cleared;†and professor David Carter at Michigan State University

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