It’s surprisingly easy to get away with murder in America

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Senior criminal justice reporter German Lopez joins Dara and Matt to talk about the high number of unsolved homicides in America. References and further reading: Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy German's reporting on the violent crime clearance rate in America Study referenced by Dara that looked at community cooperation from Secure Communities (a massive federal immigration enforcement program) In-depth reporting on the low murder clearance rate across the US from The Washington Post Anthony Braga study on Boston's approaches to solving homicides mentioned by German Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listening to podcasts is great, but at some point later tonight, you should really watch something.
0:04.8	Check out Vox's new Netflix show. It is called Explained. Every episode is a 15-minute deep dive into
0:10.1	one important topic. This week's episode is all about cricket. I watched it last time myself.
0:14.8	It's fascinating. Cricket, if you know anything about it, you probably know that you do not
0:18.8	understand it at all. This episode, it really helps you get it. They feature Steven Fry,
0:23.4	a geeking ad about his favorite sport. It explores the question of like, how did this like weird,
0:27.9	incredibly confusing like English gentleman's game become this incredibly popular phenomenon
0:33.2	with a billion fans in South Asia. It explains the surprising history of the sport, how it got to be
0:38.0	so complicated, how it has sort of evolved, and it shows how beloved this sport is, right? In America,
0:43.1	cricket is like kind of a joke, like, ha ha, these weirdos with bats, but like one in seven people
0:48.0	on earth watch the single cricket game between Indian and Pakistan. It's a huge phenomenon in major
0:53.3	parts of the world. And this show also just like it breaks down the laws of cricket. They've got laws
0:57.8	and not rules. So you can actually understand it and like, what's a test match? Like, what's going on?
1:02.4	Who these players are? Where it all comes from? So check it all out on Netflix or go straight to
1:06.9	netflix.com slash.explained. All right. Should we get into it? Yeah, let's get into it.
1:11.9	Before we do naturalize. All right.
1:13.2	Hello, welcome to another episode of the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:30.5	Matthew Glacias here with Darryl Lind and we are also joined today by Hermann Lopez.
1:35.4	This has been a busy news week, mostly even more of Russia stuff, but we talked about that on
1:40.7	Tuesday. I think it continues to be weird. It continues to be a bit of an unsolved crime.
1:45.7	And that is what we wanted to talk about today. A little bit off the news a few weeks ago,
1:51.0	you know, we were talking about immigration and I think I kind of vaguely mentioned. I was like,
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