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Today's episode is in a way about the story of the moment. There has been a surge of mass

shootings violent shootings gun related murders not just this year but in the last few years.

Crime and gun violence has become one of the top issues for Americans in this midterm

election year and this episode is about a mystery behind that story. It's the mystery

of why fewer and fewer of these murders are ever solved. So according to FBI

statistics 60 years ago in the 1960s just about all murders were cleared by

police cleared typically mean someone is arrested for the killing but since then

since the 1960s in every single decade 70s 80s 90s the clearance rate has

declined the share of murders that police solve has fallen in every single decade

for 60 years that is awfully strange a crime went way up in the second half the

20th century and the clearance rate fell then crime went down in the early 2000s

and the clearance rate fell and now murders are rising again and the clearance

rate just keeps going down it recently hit an all time low in 2020 of nearly 50%.

I mean put together the statistics 60 years ago almost every murder ended in an

arrest today half of murders in the US go unsolved committing a murder today

basically leads to a coin flip chance of getting arrested. So today's guest is

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