While I'm grappling, I can't forget that fifty percent (50%) of homicides in this country are un-solved. For that reason, these statistics account for only 50% of the actual number of murdered people.

Like rapists, murderers are often serial murderers or mass-murderers. This means there are more murdered people than murderers. These statistics do not separate the serial/mass murderers from those who murder one person – or child. Since 50% of murders are un-solved we have no idea how many murderers are walking free among us.

I don’t know if mass-shooters are included in these statistics – do you? If mass-shootings have been excluded from these statistics, failing to exclude gang-shootings would be an unsurprising repeat of racist garbage (along the lines of white and crack cocaine).

I disagree with the idea “that the “poor” crime rate is higher than the “wealthy” crime rate. The fact is that wealthy people murder far more people than poor people possibly could. Remember the Sackler’s, the whole family were mass murderers who killed tens of thousands of people. Since none of them were convicted of murder, they are not included in these homicide statistics. If wealthy white murderers were included in homicide statistics, we’d have a much clearer picture of homicide in this country. If we do not consider long, slow, painful deaths murder, I think it’s time we did.

By the by, Steve QJ – you handle statistics a whole lot better than me.

For anyone interested in more reading:

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/07/police-murder-clearance-rate/661500/