Editing Clearance rate (section)

== Homicide clearance rate ==
[[Homicide]] clearance rate in the USA has been decreasing from 93% in 1962 to 54% in 2020.<ref name="n766">{{cite journal | last=Cook | first=Philip J. | last2=Mancik | first2=Ashley | title=The Sixty-Year Trajectory of Homicide Clearance Rates: Toward a Better Understanding of the Great Decline | journal=Annual Review of Criminology | publisher=Annual Reviews | volume=7 | issue=1 | date=26 January 2024 | issn=2572-4568 | doi=10.1146/annurev-criminol-022422-122744 | doi-access=free | pages=59–83}}</ref> Some U.S. police forces have been criticized for overuse of "exceptional clearance", which is intended to classify as "cleared" cases where probable cause to arrest a suspect exists, but police are unable to do so for reasons outside their control (such as death or incarceration in a foreign country).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newsy.com/stories/case-cleared-the-consequences-of-exceptional-clearance/ |title=Case Cleared: The Consequences Of 'Exceptional Clearance' |author1=Mark Greenblatt |author2=Mark Fahey |author3=Bernice Yeung |date=November 16, 2018}}</ref>

While homicide clearance rate differs between countries, with around 98% in Finland and around 24% in Trinidad and Tobago, a direct comparison is limited due to differing definitions and [[criminal justice]] procedures.<ref name="d087">{{cite journal | last=Liem | first=Marieke | last2=Suonpää | first2=Karoliina | last3=Lehti | first3=Martti | last4=Kivivuori | first4=Janne | last5=Granath | first5=Sven | last6=Walser | first6=Simone | last7=Killias | first7=Martin | title=Homicide clearance in Western Europe | journal=European Journal of Criminology | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=16 | issue=1 | date=30 March 2018 | issn=1477-3708 | doi=10.1177/1477370818764840 | doi-access=free | pages=81–101| hdl=1887/64091 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>