Wednesday, November 12

reason #387 not to move to pheonix (unless you want to kill a man)

"Two out of three killers are getting away with murder in Phoenix this year as the city's homicide tally climbs toward a record. Through October, 216 people were killed in Phoenix, more than in all of last year. At the current pace, Phoenix will pass the record 241 homicides in 1994.

Beleaguered homicide detectives say they are so overwhelmed by bodies that, in some cases, they can do little more than just document the murder scene and move on to the next one.

As a result, the city's clearance rate has dropped to an unprecedented 31 percent. The average clearance rate last year was 58 percent for cities with populations greater than 250,000. In Phoenix last year, 48 percent of murders were solved."

-The Arizona Republic

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