Out of 424 homicides tracked in Baton Rouge over the past seven years, 46% went without an arrest, according to homicide data compiled by The Washington Post.
The newspaper mapped more than 50,000 homicides in major U.S. cities over the past decade, charting the neighborhoods and even city blocks where homicides often go without an arrest.
Locally, fewer homicides in north Baton Rouge ended in an arrest than those in other parts of the city.
In New Orleans, 65% of 1,434 homicides tracked for the past eight years did not result in an arrest. Nationwide, out of 52,179 homicides in 50 cities over the past 10 years, 51% did not result in an arrest.
Police made an arrest in 49% of all homicides across the 50 cities, but arrest rates varied widely from city to city. In Chicago, fewer than 30% of homicides resulted in an arrest, compared with over 70% in Richmond, Va.
Almost all of the cities have racial disparities in arrest rates. In 44 of the 47 cities where victims’ race was reliably recorded, homicides with a white victim resulted in an arrest more often than homicides with a minority victim.
See the full story and the map of Baton Rouge’s homicide arrests.
