A CBS Los Angeles investigation just unearthed a startling trend: arrests in murder cases across the U.S. are at a 50-year low. And when a murder victim is Black, their case is even more likely to remain unsolved.
The loss of two sons is almost too much to bear for Barbara Pritchett-Hughes, but that one of their murders remains unsolved makes life even more agonizing.
"Not again. Not again. and I prayed and I asked God to don't allow this to happen again," she said tearfully. "Nothing. To this day, I still don't know who's the person responsible for killing my son 100% for sure," she said.seek public help in the case as authorities offered a $50,000 reward for information earlier this year
But starting in 2013, there was a dramatic decline in Los Angeles. By the time DeAndre Hughes was murdered in 2016, the overall trend was already going down and his case remains unsolved. By 2020, the last year of available data, the clearance rate dropped in LA from a 5-year average of around 74% to 55%, representing a 25% drop."Our thought was we need more resources and what are the underlying influence," he said.
"The solving of a crime, a homicide particularly, is dependent on community trusting police," Moore said. Closer to home in Los Angeles County, 75% of murder cases involving white victims were solved, but when it came to Black and Hispanic victims, those numbers were 23% and 36%, respectively. LAPD solved 67% of murders involving white victims, and 43% for both Black and Hispanic victims.
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