2018 Homicide Clearance Rate

Posted on February 26, 2018

Legal Outcome	Homicides
No Suspect Charged	228
Suspect Charged	42
Police-Involved	3
Murder-Suicide	3
Self-Defense	2

The clearance rate is a calculation of Total Homicide Suspects Charged/(Total Homicides – Police involved – Self Defense – Murder/Suicides). Regardless of how many people are charged in relation to a single homicide, it’s only counted as one suspect for calculation purposes. The rate has nothing to do with criminal proceedings and convictions (or lack thereof).