The stretched-too-thin blue line

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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FBI data shows police departments have been solving fewer violent crimes since 2020. Data analyst Jeff Asher explains where policing is failing, and Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia talks about what cops say they need. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every fall the FBI releases data on crime. What's happening, where it's happening, how often it's happening.
0:07.0	They have data, they have it monthly, they have it annually, they have it going back to 1930 and for nerds that look at crime data like me
0:16.0	it's I hate to call it the Super Bowl of crime data. Baked into that data is another
0:21.3	number the solve rate which is exactly what it sounds like.
0:24.7	It tells us how well the police are doing their jobs.
0:28.2	This year, when the data dropped, analysts noticed something troubling and puzzling about the solve rate. It's fallen since 2019.
0:36.7	It wasn't just murder that was having a decline in clearance rates, but it was really across
0:40.8	the board to some of the lowest levels ever reported for every crime.
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