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50% of U.S. murders now going unsolved
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Jul 07, 2025 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 3 minute read
If you are murdered in the United States, there’s a 50% chance your killing is going to go cold.
According to The New York Times, in cities like Louisville, Kentucky, police don’t even make an arrest in half of their homicide investigations.
The problem is nationwide, the Times reported. While the clearance rate was 58% in 2023, that number is inflated because it includes homicides from previous years that the police solved in 2023.
For comparison, the homicide clearance rate in Canada is around 70% The Toronto Police Service’s clearance rate is one of the highest in North America, with an 80% solve rate over the past five years.
Experts in the U.S. claim the volume of investigations and distrust of the police have stymied countless murder probes. And the fact that solving a case has come down to a flip of the coin, criminals have become emboldened.
“It’s a vicious cycle,” Brian Forst, a criminologist at American University, told the Times. “When the bad guys see that the police are not there to deter crime and catch criminals, they remain on the streets to do more bad stuff. And the rest of the community is less deterred from crime. They think, ‘Why not? I’m not going to get caught.’”
Experts say the most powerful deterrent to violent crime is the would-be killer knowing cops will catch them quickly. The idea that they will be captured and punished somewhere down the road doesn’t work.
“The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment,” concluded the National Institute of Justice in its review of the evidence.
Most of the victims in the mounting tally of unsolved murders are poor and Black.
“Take a bunch of teenage boys from the whitest, safest suburb in America and plunk them down in a place where their friends are murdered and they are constantly attacked and threatened,” author Jill Leovy wrote in Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America.
“Signal that no one cares, and fail to solve murders. Limit their options for escape. Then see what happens.”
Experts told the Times there are five key reasons why murder investigations go cold.
– Lack of attention and police resources. Cops in New York and Boston boast the country’s highest clearance rate because they are well-funded.
– America has more guns than any other country in the world. A firearms murder is harder to solve than a stabbing. In 2023, the U.S. homicide rate with guns was 4.4 per 100,000; in Canada, it was 0.7 per 100,000.
– The U.S. also has more gang crime than other Western nations. These crimes are harder to solve.
– For sheer volume, no one can touch the U.S. More murders and fewer cops is a recipe for disaster. One detective noted, “We are swamped.”
– A long history of distrust between the cops and the community harms homicide detectives’ ability to solve murders.
The American murder rate has dropped dramatically since the 1990s, when battles over crack turf turned city streets into slaughterhouses. But for the above-mentioned reasons, murder remains as American as apple pie.
More resources and modern technology could provide an Rx to stem the march to the morgue.
But in the end, murder is about the victims, their friends and families.
“I want someone to be held accountable for taking my son’s life,” said Delphine Prentice, the mother of Damion Morton, who was shot and killed in 2017.
But after eight years, she added, “I’m about to give up hope.”
bhunter@postmedia.com
@HunterTOSun
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Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Jul 07, 2025 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 3 minute read
If you are murdered in the United States, there’s a 50% chance your killing is going to go cold.
According to The New York Times, in cities like Louisville, Kentucky, police don’t even make an arrest in half of their homicide investigations.
The problem is nationwide, the Times reported. While the clearance rate was 58% in 2023, that number is inflated because it includes homicides from previous years that the police solved in 2023.
For comparison, the homicide clearance rate in Canada is around 70% The Toronto Police Service’s clearance rate is one of the highest in North America, with an 80% solve rate over the past five years.
Experts in the U.S. claim the volume of investigations and distrust of the police have stymied countless murder probes. And the fact that solving a case has come down to a flip of the coin, criminals have become emboldened.
“It’s a vicious cycle,” Brian Forst, a criminologist at American University, told the Times. “When the bad guys see that the police are not there to deter crime and catch criminals, they remain on the streets to do more bad stuff. And the rest of the community is less deterred from crime. They think, ‘Why not? I’m not going to get caught.’”
Experts say the most powerful deterrent to violent crime is the would-be killer knowing cops will catch them quickly. The idea that they will be captured and punished somewhere down the road doesn’t work.
“The certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than the punishment,” concluded the National Institute of Justice in its review of the evidence.
Most of the victims in the mounting tally of unsolved murders are poor and Black.
“Take a bunch of teenage boys from the whitest, safest suburb in America and plunk them down in a place where their friends are murdered and they are constantly attacked and threatened,” author Jill Leovy wrote in Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America.
“Signal that no one cares, and fail to solve murders. Limit their options for escape. Then see what happens.”
Experts told the Times there are five key reasons why murder investigations go cold.
– Lack of attention and police resources. Cops in New York and Boston boast the country’s highest clearance rate because they are well-funded.
– America has more guns than any other country in the world. A firearms murder is harder to solve than a stabbing. In 2023, the U.S. homicide rate with guns was 4.4 per 100,000; in Canada, it was 0.7 per 100,000.
– The U.S. also has more gang crime than other Western nations. These crimes are harder to solve.
– For sheer volume, no one can touch the U.S. More murders and fewer cops is a recipe for disaster. One detective noted, “We are swamped.”
– A long history of distrust between the cops and the community harms homicide detectives’ ability to solve murders.
The American murder rate has dropped dramatically since the 1990s, when battles over crack turf turned city streets into slaughterhouses. But for the above-mentioned reasons, murder remains as American as apple pie.
More resources and modern technology could provide an Rx to stem the march to the morgue.
But in the end, murder is about the victims, their friends and families.
“I want someone to be held accountable for taking my son’s life,” said Delphine Prentice, the mother of Damion Morton, who was shot and killed in 2017.
But after eight years, she added, “I’m about to give up hope.”
bhunter@postmedia.com
@HunterTOSun
SHOCK STATISTIC: 50% of U.S. murders now going unsolved
If you are murdered in the United States, there's a 50% chance your killing is going to go cold.
So, shouldn't the saying be "The Mounties get their man maybe 3/4 of the time or so?"
Gary Coleman's ex-wife fails lie-detector test about actor's death from fall
Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Jul 09, 2025 • 2 minute read
Actor Gary Coleman’s ex-wife wasn’t able to pass a lie-detector test when questioned about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Whatcha talkin’ ’bout?
Shannon Price is set to appear on A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception series after she was asked yes or no questions about Coleman’s death by a retired FBI agent and polygraph examiner George Olivo.
Price married the Diff’rent Strokes actor in 2007 after they met on the set of the film Church Ball. However, the following year they divorced and Coleman was granted a restraining order to keep her away from his home when he was hospitalized.
Despite the restraining order, Coleman and Price lived together in a common-law relationship until his death in May 2010 after he fell down the stairs at his Utah home.
According to A&E, Price took the test to “address persistent public suspicion regarding her potential involvement in his death, even though she was never charged in connection with it.”
She answered Olivo’s questions while hooked up to the machine, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which obtained a copy of the episode before it aired.
“Did you ever strike Gary during your relationship?”
“No,” she answered.
“Did you intentionally decide to withhold help to Gary when he fell?”
“No,” she replied again.
The polygraph determined her answers to those two questions were inconclusive, meaning she didn’t score high enough to pass or low enough to fail.
“Did you physically cause Gary’s fall? Did you physically cause Gary to fall that day?”
“No,” she said.
That response was rated a failing grade with deception. Olivo asked her what she thought about the results.
“That’s false,” she said.
Olivo said he doesn’t know what exactly happened the day Coleman fell down the stairs and injured his head, resulting in a brain bleed that ultimately led to his death at 42.
“I don’t know what happened in that house, but what could have happened is that she and Gary got into a shouting match or an argument that turned into a shoving match, he fell and hit the ground,” Olivo told The Hollywood Reporter. “It doesn’t have to be any more sinister than that.”
He added that she may not want to explain how the events unfolded in the home if Coleman’s head injury happened by accident.
“All I know for sure, what I’m 100% certain of — at least through my process — is that there is more to the story than she’s telling.”
The two-hour premiere airs Thursday night on A&E.
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Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Jul 09, 2025 • 2 minute read
Actor Gary Coleman’s ex-wife wasn’t able to pass a lie-detector test when questioned about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Whatcha talkin’ ’bout?
Shannon Price is set to appear on A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception series after she was asked yes or no questions about Coleman’s death by a retired FBI agent and polygraph examiner George Olivo.
Price married the Diff’rent Strokes actor in 2007 after they met on the set of the film Church Ball. However, the following year they divorced and Coleman was granted a restraining order to keep her away from his home when he was hospitalized.
Despite the restraining order, Coleman and Price lived together in a common-law relationship until his death in May 2010 after he fell down the stairs at his Utah home.
According to A&E, Price took the test to “address persistent public suspicion regarding her potential involvement in his death, even though she was never charged in connection with it.”
She answered Olivo’s questions while hooked up to the machine, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which obtained a copy of the episode before it aired.
“Did you ever strike Gary during your relationship?”
“No,” she answered.
“Did you intentionally decide to withhold help to Gary when he fell?”
“No,” she replied again.
The polygraph determined her answers to those two questions were inconclusive, meaning she didn’t score high enough to pass or low enough to fail.
“Did you physically cause Gary’s fall? Did you physically cause Gary to fall that day?”
“No,” she said.
That response was rated a failing grade with deception. Olivo asked her what she thought about the results.
“That’s false,” she said.
Olivo said he doesn’t know what exactly happened the day Coleman fell down the stairs and injured his head, resulting in a brain bleed that ultimately led to his death at 42.
“I don’t know what happened in that house, but what could have happened is that she and Gary got into a shouting match or an argument that turned into a shoving match, he fell and hit the ground,” Olivo told The Hollywood Reporter. “It doesn’t have to be any more sinister than that.”
He added that she may not want to explain how the events unfolded in the home if Coleman’s head injury happened by accident.
“All I know for sure, what I’m 100% certain of — at least through my process — is that there is more to the story than she’s telling.”
The two-hour premiere airs Thursday night on A&E.
Gary Coleman’s Ex-Wife Didn’t Do Well on a Polygraph About His Death
The Hollywood Reporter grilled Shannon Price’s lie-detector test administrator over her A&E episode.
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Gary Coleman's ex-wife fails lie-detector test about actor's death from fall
Actor Gary Coleman's ex-wife wasn't able to pass a lie-detector test when questioned about the circumstances surrounding his death.
thankfully midgets are not endangered.Gary Coleman's ex-wife fails lie-detector test about actor's death from fall
Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Jul 09, 2025 • 2 minute read
Actor Gary Coleman’s ex-wife wasn’t able to pass a lie-detector test when questioned about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Whatcha talkin’ ’bout?
Shannon Price is set to appear on A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception series after she was asked yes or no questions about Coleman’s death by a retired FBI agent and polygraph examiner George Olivo.
Price married the Diff’rent Strokes actor in 2007 after they met on the set of the film Church Ball. However, the following year they divorced and Coleman was granted a restraining order to keep her away from his home when he was hospitalized.
Despite the restraining order, Coleman and Price lived together in a common-law relationship until his death in May 2010 after he fell down the stairs at his Utah home.
According to A&E, Price took the test to “address persistent public suspicion regarding her potential involvement in his death, even though she was never charged in connection with it.”
She answered Olivo’s questions while hooked up to the machine, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which obtained a copy of the episode before it aired.
“Did you ever strike Gary during your relationship?”
“No,” she answered.
“Did you intentionally decide to withhold help to Gary when he fell?”
“No,” she replied again.
The polygraph determined her answers to those two questions were inconclusive, meaning she didn’t score high enough to pass or low enough to fail.
“Did you physically cause Gary’s fall? Did you physically cause Gary to fall that day?”
“No,” she said.
That response was rated a failing grade with deception. Olivo asked her what she thought about the results.
“That’s false,” she said.
Olivo said he doesn’t know what exactly happened the day Coleman fell down the stairs and injured his head, resulting in a brain bleed that ultimately led to his death at 42.
“I don’t know what happened in that house, but what could have happened is that she and Gary got into a shouting match or an argument that turned into a shoving match, he fell and hit the ground,” Olivo told The Hollywood Reporter. “It doesn’t have to be any more sinister than that.”
He added that she may not want to explain how the events unfolded in the home if Coleman’s head injury happened by accident.
“All I know for sure, what I’m 100% certain of — at least through my process — is that there is more to the story than she’s telling.”
The two-hour premiere airs Thursday night on A&E.
Gary Coleman’s Ex-Wife Didn’t Do Well on a Polygraph About His Death
The Hollywood Reporter grilled Shannon Price’s lie-detector test administrator over her A&E episode.Gary Coleman's ex-wife fails lie-detector test about actor's death from fall
Actor Gary Coleman's ex-wife wasn't able to pass a lie-detector test when questioned about the circumstances surrounding his death.
K-9 unit dog, Devi, is mourned following her death
Author of the article:Jane Stevenson
Published Jul 11, 2025 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 1 minute read
K-9 Unit's T.C. Andrews and his dog, Devi
Devi, a K-9 unit police dog in Toronto, has passed after over a decade of service including working the Pan Am Games. Photo by Toronto Police Association
A “beloved” K-9 Unit dog has died after more than a decade of service in Toronto including during the 2015 Pan Am Games.
The Toronto Police Association says police service dog has Devi, who worked with handler T.C. Andrews, has passed.
“We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Police Service Dog Devi, a beloved member of our K9 Unit,” said the TPA on it’s X account.
“Devi was certified in Explosive Firearm Detection in May 2015, just in time for the Pan-Am Games, and spent over a decade working side by side with her handler, T.C. Andrews. She was exceptional at her job. Focused, fearless, and full of heart.”
The TPA continues in its post on X: “Devi left a lasting impression on everyone she met. Her dedication, loyalty, and presence will never be forgotten. Our heartfelt condolences to T.C. Andrews and everyone who served with Devi.”
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Jane Stevenson
Published Jul 11, 2025 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 1 minute read
K-9 Unit's T.C. Andrews and his dog, Devi
Devi, a K-9 unit police dog in Toronto, has passed after over a decade of service including working the Pan Am Games. Photo by Toronto Police Association
A “beloved” K-9 Unit dog has died after more than a decade of service in Toronto including during the 2015 Pan Am Games.
The Toronto Police Association says police service dog has Devi, who worked with handler T.C. Andrews, has passed.
“We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Police Service Dog Devi, a beloved member of our K9 Unit,” said the TPA on it’s X account.
“Devi was certified in Explosive Firearm Detection in May 2015, just in time for the Pan-Am Games, and spent over a decade working side by side with her handler, T.C. Andrews. She was exceptional at her job. Focused, fearless, and full of heart.”
The TPA continues in its post on X: “Devi left a lasting impression on everyone she met. Her dedication, loyalty, and presence will never be forgotten. Our heartfelt condolences to T.C. Andrews and everyone who served with Devi.”
'Focused, fearless and full of heart' K-9 unit dog, Devi, is mourned following her death
A “beloved” K-9 Unit dog has died after more than a decade of service in Toronto including during the Pan-Am Games.
Aww - I wish they lived longer. I had to put down our 16 y.o. terrier last September & still get weepy sometimes when I think about him. It's hard!! RIP DeviK-9 unit dog, Devi, is mourned following her death
Author of the article:Jane Stevenson
Published Jul 11, 2025 • Last updated 19 hours ago • 1 minute read
K-9 Unit's T.C. Andrews and his dog, Devi
Devi, a K-9 unit police dog in Toronto, has passed after over a decade of service including working the Pan Am Games. Photo by Toronto Police Association
A “beloved” K-9 Unit dog has died after more than a decade of service in Toronto including during the 2015 Pan Am Games.
The Toronto Police Association says police service dog has Devi, who worked with handler T.C. Andrews, has passed.
“We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Police Service Dog Devi, a beloved member of our K9 Unit,” said the TPA on it’s X account.
“Devi was certified in Explosive Firearm Detection in May 2015, just in time for the Pan-Am Games, and spent over a decade working side by side with her handler, T.C. Andrews. She was exceptional at her job. Focused, fearless, and full of heart.”
The TPA continues in its post on X: “Devi left a lasting impression on everyone she met. Her dedication, loyalty, and presence will never be forgotten. Our heartfelt condolences to T.C. Andrews and everyone who served with Devi.”
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'Focused, fearless and full of heart' K-9 unit dog, Devi, is mourned following her death
A “beloved” K-9 Unit dog has died after more than a decade of service in Toronto including during the Pan-Am Games.
