Add the homicide clearance gap to the other gaps

Posted on: August 29, 2019 at 11:36:45 CT

"The unsolved deaths have made St. Louis the latest example of a nationwide issue the Washington Post documented in 2018: the difference in homicide clearance rates based on race. The Post’s investigation found that in 52 cities it surveyed, there were “racial inequities in homicide arrest rates no matter the location of the killing: A black homicide was less likely to lead to an arrest than a white homicide in either majority-black neighborhoods or majority-white neighborhoods.” Black victims, the Post noted, were the majority of homicide victims, but they were “the least likely of any racial group to have their killings result in an arrest.”