Most reported crimes are never solved by arrest

Evidence

All too often, alas, this is nearly the end of the story. Most break-​ins are never solved; no arrests are made; the goods are never recovered. In 1971 in New York City, victims reported 501,951 felonies to the police; in four cases out of five, nothing more happened. The police made 100,739 felony arrests. Some of the people arrested were charged with more than one reported felony. Still, the police were able to “clear” by arrest only 111,824 of these half million felonies. Forty years later, the situation has hardly improved. In 2011, only 47.7 percent of the violent crimes reported nationwide were “cleared by arrest,” and a mere 18.6 percent of the property crimes; 64.8 percent of the murders led to an arrest, but only 12.7 percent of the burglaries. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 825

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most crimes go unreported and most offenders escape punishment — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1376

Broader Connections

• Most crimes go unreported and most offenders escape punishment #contradicts (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1376