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An Early Warning That Policing May Be in Decline | Police departments across the country are solving far fewer crimes than they did before 2020.
(www.nytimes.com)
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.
There are many issues with this, mostly that a large number of victims don’t immediately seek help and because of the delay (often months or years) cant have a rape kit done.
This reduces the evidence available for finding and prosecuting the offenders.
If women aren't submitting rape kits, how come so many forensic labs have huge backlogs of untested kits?
Huh, the US seems to have a backlog which is what I assume you’re referring to, Im not familiar with the specifics so can’t comment on the cause.
Older data in this example but it’s similar enough to more recent data Ive seen elsewhere, and has a better sample size.
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system
Only 31% of rapes are reported and of those 77% are eligible for rape kits.
That’s remarkably similar to the 25% of cases where the rapist is successfully convicted according to the claims above.