While headlines tend to focus on falling clearance rates in large liberal cities, the decline occurred nationwide in both red and blue cities, counties and states. The violent crime clearance rate, for example, fell considerably between 2019 to 2022 in big cities, which tend to be led by Democrats, as well as in small cities and suburban and rural counties, which tend to be led by Republicans.

  • Ashyr
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but that’s not a normative discussion for most white families. It is for most black families.

    I had an outlier experience as have you, but that doesn’t change the role racism and bias play in policing.