We’re almost down to half of the homicides being solved or cleared.
The share of murders going unsolved is on the rise in the United States, according to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS).
As Statista’s Anna Fleck details in the chart below, 2020 saw a record low of only 54.4 percent of the country’s homicide cases cleared – or an estimated 9,836 out of 21,570 crimes. Due to data reporting delays, this is the latest available data.