Murder by the numbers

[sealybobo]

This is scary.

• In 2015, more than 29 percent (29.2) of homicide victims were killed by someone they knew other than family members (acquaintance, neighbor, friend, boyfriend, etc.), 12.8 percent were slain by family members, and 10.2 percent were killed by strangers. The relationship between murder victims and offenders was unknown in 47.8 percent of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter incidents. (Based on Expanded Homicide Data Table 10.)

I was surprised to see only 10% are strangers.

And shocked that half are unknown. So unsolved?

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide#:~:text=In%202015%2C%20more%20than%2029,percent%20were%20killed%20by%20strangers.

 

[odanny]

Sure sounds like half of all murders are unsolved.

You can imagine the difficulty of tracking down someone who robs and murders a complete stranger, now factor in black on black, gang related crime, where no one will be talking to the police about it, which leads to revenge killings.