• “We’re on the verge of being the first developed nation where the majority of homicides go uncleared,” Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, informed The Guardian.
• The Murder Accountability Project attributed the lower rate of homicides being solved to the soaring rate of homicides.
• It also opined that “the nation’s police and sheriff’s departments were overwhelmed and understaffed in 2020 to meet the surging demand for their investigative services.”

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