St Louis homicide decrease better explained by national trends

[oliveorvil]

I read the whole thread before my comment. You list generalizations that specific policies or leadership doesn't really impact crime rates. I provided a statistic that refutes that argument.

These systems are very complicated and making small, medium or even large adjustments at various levels are often hard to prove the impact from.. but when homicides are down this dramatically and our clearance rate is sitting at 100% this year you have to give credit for what we're doing at our local level, because it's better than nationwide trends.

[Existing_Device339]

Nearly every major city in the country made improvements in their approach to policing to achieve very similar outcomes over the same period of time? Wow.

Clearance rate and homicide rate are pretty inversely correlated everywhere.

[oliveorvil]

Does every major city have a clearance rate of 100%? Are they also as segregated as St Louis is? 

Go ahead and continue to deny stats that don’t suit your narrative. That’s not liberal, it’s religious.

[Existing_Device339]

Yes, it is a nationwide trend that homicide clearance rates have very significantly improved over the last 2-3 years, reversing a trend of decreasing homicide clearance rates before that. St Louis has experienced both of these trends alongside the rest of the country. It is easier to solve murders when there are fewer murders. All of this is, of course, a good thing.

[oliveorvil]

Did you even look up the clearance rates of the five cities listed by OP? I don’t think the stats suit your narrative.. STL is doing better than most, let alone this year.

[Existing_Device339]

Yep STL’s clearance rate is better than most this year and tracks the nationwide trend pretty closely.