Getting Away with Murder Thanks to Criminal Justice Reform

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Thanks to criminal justice reform, investigators can no longer roll low-level offenders to get them to snitch on the big targets. As a result, many more people are getting away with murder in Americaโ€™s big cities.

Law enforcement sources say the criminal justice reform movement sweeping states and policies of liberal prosecutors leave them with fewer cooperating witnesses. They need these small-time hoods to crack homicide and other serious criminal cases.

โ€œCriminal justice reform is crushing investigations. I apprehended individuals on something minor, and they wanted to make a deal because they didnโ€™t want to go to jail. Now we donโ€™t have the snitch pool of low-level offenders willing to talk about bigger fish. Itโ€™s huge, and itโ€™s such a simple concept,โ€ said Paul Beakman, a former police officer and former president of the Fraternal Order of Police Western New York Lodge 103.

Itโ€™s showing up in the numbers.

The District of Columbiaโ€™s police force has cleared 49% of its homicide cases through July of this year, compared with 65% during the same period last year. The Metropolitan Police Department ended last year with a 69% clearance rate.

In Cincinnati, police have cleared 61% of homicide cases so far this year, compared with 71% last year. It finished in 2021 with a 67% clearance rate.

In New York City, the homicide clearance rate was 80% for the first quarter of this year, far above the national average of 54% but a drop from 86% during the first three months of 2021.

It will only get worse.

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