What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs, my name is
Briggs have you ever heard the same getting away with murder while doing
some research for the murder capitals of the United States recently I found an
FBI crime stat I never really thought about what percentage of the murders
went unsolved what normally happens when I find a stat like that I go down this
Google rabbit hole and I dig up more information than I'll probably ever use
an FBI report found that roughly 40% of the nation's slayings went unsolved in
2018 gone by 2018 because the 2019 study won't be done till like the middle of
summer or something like that the bureau looked at 2018 crime stats and arrest
data from 16,000 law enforcement agencies across the country and found
that only 61 point two percent of reported murders were actually cleared
the FBI considers a murder case cleared when a person is arrested charged and
turned over to the courts or when the offender or offenders are identified but
cannot be arrested because they either died or they can't be extradited so for
whatever reason people are getting away with murder in some cities more than
others let's see what cities those are starting with number 10 Topeka Kansas
most people don't think about Topeka Kansas ever I'm sure if you asked a
bunch of high school kids that aren't from Kansas what they knew about Topeka
they would say it's what American Indians used to live in and then you
would have to stop asking them questions and explain that it's a city in the
middle of the country and not where Native Americans used to live which are
actually called teepees a year after Topeka saw record 30 homicides in 2017
the number of slayings was down dramatically in 2018 with 17 homicides
reported in Kansas capital city only thirty two point seven percent of those
homicides were cleared number nine Detroit Michigan at number nine we have
a great American city that hasn't pulled itself out of an almost four decade long
nosedive until just recently and not by much in the last two years to try to
sort of turn the corner and started getting a little bit better as far as
economy goes and other things that go along with it like less poverty and
things like that anyway mainly all the improvements have been down
town that got better I get the feeling they've kind of given up on the rest at
least they've knocked down enough abandoned buildings that the locals can
now start raising cattle if they want in 2017 Detroit had 267 homicides
2018 they got a little bit better but it was only 261 out of all those murders
only 31.8% gets solved number 8 New York City the Big Apple has seen a lot of
killing in its days you name the way and someone has been dispatched in that
manner New York City was once a place where toe tags were more comment and
working city buses in 1969 the city cracked a thousand murders for the first
time in its history it wasn't until 1996 they got under a thousand again the
worst year was 1990 when they had two thousand two hundred and forty five
homicides 2017 marked the first time they were under 300 since 1951 and in
2018 they got a little bit better they dropped three more and came in with only
289 homicides the downside of all those great numbers they're only solving about
31% of the murders in New York City number seven Grand Rapids Michigan look
at that Michigan shows up again but don't get comfortable they're in the
great lake state we're not done with you yet this stat was not kind to you
Wolverines the chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property
crime in Grand Rapids is about 1 in 38 and that's based on FBI crime data Grand
Rapids is not the safest community in America per capita it's not that big and
to be honest I've experienced the violence of Grand Rapids I was a victim
I was staying at a bed-and-breakfast in Grand Rapids probably around 1992 the
older woman running the place was named Lila she told me if I go out the back
door be very careful so of course that sparked my interest the next day I had
no reason to go out the back door but there I went I get to the stairs and I
see what the danger was the stairs going down are covered with small potted
plants there were so many you could only place one foot on a stair at a time
without all the plants being there for people could have sat there comfortably
right next to each other on the same step
that's how crowded it was with small potted plants wasn't even big potted
plants there's a little tiny ones I knocked over a plant going down the
stairs and I hear this shriek behind me that sound like someone who just sat on
a curling iron that had been plugged in for an hour point up I didn't even have
time to turn around to see what the old woman
was shrieking about when her shoe hit me square in the back she threw a shoe at
me and continued to yell and Hungarian and that's when it got weird her 87 year
old husband or what he could have been 74 all I know he was not in good shape
he comes out from what looked like a duck blind he was back there nude sudden
bathing he came over to see what's going on he's having a conversation with me
he's got his towel over shoulder nothing else I'm never going back to Grand
Rapids Grand Rapids only had 16 murders in 2018 but the thing is they on average
only clear about 30% of their murders now it's not that mini it seems kind of
weird that they're on this list but since we're going by the stat alone
they're only clearing 30 point nine percent of their cases number six Kokomo
Indiana Kokomo always reminds me of a Beach Boys song about a beautiful beach
Kokomo Indiana has nothing like a Beach Boys song it's more like a Marilyn
Manson song I saw an interesting news report about this town they had a series
of people being beaten to death back around 2000 2004 one person who claimed
he saw someone leaving the premises of one of the murders while he was eating
cereal well he got arrested a couple months later and was sent to jail for
almost beating a female neighbor to death after he went to jail in 2004 the
beating death stopped they still haven't cleared those other
original beating deaths you know I'm not a cop but I take a long look at the
cereal eating prisoner right now there are more dangerous and larger cities in
Indiana Gary South Bend Indianapolis but they solve more of their murders than
Kokomo does Kokomo isn't a safe place for you or your stuff and their homicide
clearance rate is under 30% 29.8 number five Lima Ohio during the 1970s and 80s
a number of industries left Lima part of the Rust Belt decline affecting pretty
much all of Ohio Michigan a few other places it hasn't had many great years
since these days it has the same look a lot of Rust Belt cities have house after
house look like their desperate need of repair and then they have the tell-tale
sign of a place that's been suffering from a lot of years most of the blocks
have a handful of vacant lots you know there used to be a home there and they
just had to tear down cities in this part of the nation realized about a
decade ago that it's actually easier to bulldoze a house than deal with what
goes on inside a vacant home the homicide clearance rate in Lima Ohio is
24 point five percent number four Saginaw
Michigan more of the Rust Belt and more Michigan this is a story that can be
told over and over manufacturing in Saginaw declined in the latter half of
the 20th century leading to high unemployment in the city which led to
less tax revenue which led to fewer police which led to more crime as a
result the city's population is diminished drastically from 2000 2010
the population of Saginaw proper decreased by nearly 10,000 people in
addition Saginaw faces increasing social problems related to poverty as a result
of the high crime and unemployment basically it's like the only people that
stuck around are the a-holes the crime rate has been a major area of concern
for this community and when someone gets croaked they don't seem to find suspects
as often as they'd like the homicide clearance rate in Saginaw is twenty
three point three percent number three Midland Michigan not too far from
Saginaw you have the more depressing city of Midland Michigan this is the
type of town that probably has real estate agents on public assistance
probably not but I wouldn't doubt it if they did if you move here insure
everything car home life see if you can get pet insurance I guess people are
stealing pets here one dude had his turtle stolen out of his garage he said
that he had the turtle his whole life I guess that's how most people have
turtles they outlast us and if you get sick of your turtle nobody wants to take
it off your hands and none of your friends at least you kind of stuck with
the turtle your whole life they last like 120 years what's a human last for
75 if they're doing good they never solved the turtle heist and they only
solved 23% of their murders in Midland in 2018 number 2 Honolulu Hawaii who saw
this one coming not me I guess the biggest problem with solving any crime
in Honolulu is the locals they won't rat anyone out with a crime rate to 40 per
every thousand residents Honolulu has one of the highest crime rates in
America your chance of becoming a victim of either a violent or property crime is
one in twenty five one in twenty five that's very low in Hawaii more than 95%
of the communities are safer than Honolulu that's not saying much and not
much of it is like sun block theft or anything like that they're really
stealing things from each other they don't even solve 20% of their murders
it's 18 point 8 percent of their murders are solved
and number one Flint Michigan you know what congratulations Michigan you've
showed up more on one list than any other state has unless it was actually a
list about a specific state nobody is doing good in Flint well maybe a lawyer
that helps you sell those structured settlements you're probably gonna get
from that Flint water crisis they're doing really well Flint has so many
problems the fact that they have a low homicide clearance rate is really
irrelevant to some degree to a lot of them Flint is bad all the way around if
you do end up here and you get shot twice you'll have a better chance of
surviving the shooting then your murder has of getting solved if you don't
survive the homicide clearance rate in Flint Michigan is only seventeen point
five percent that sucks all right that's my list I hope you guys enjoyed it hope
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