Need Another Reason to Carry? Arrests
With Convictions - Just 2% of Major Crimes

By John Boch. January 4, 2021

Welcome to 2021. For those of you out there who have not made a resolution to pack heat every day for personal defense, here's a fact to consider. Police make arrests in just 11% of major crimes nationwide. Here's another factoid. Only 2% of major crimes result in a conviction of the guilty party.

There are a host of reasons for low arrest and conviction rates. Everything from Soros-backed prosecutors arbitrarily declining to prosecute serious cases to a "no snitch" culture in some neighborhoods. Put these together and you get Chicago and its roughly 13% closure rate on homicide cases.

The Chicago Reporter does some great investigative journalism and shares this

As Americans across the nation protest police violence, people have begun to call for cuts or changes in public spending on police. But neither these nor other proposed reforms address a key problem with solving crimes.

My recent review of 50 years of national crime data confirms that, as police report, they don't solve most serious crimes in America. But the real statistics are worse than police data show. In the U.S. it's rare that a crime report leads to police arresting a suspect who is then convicted of the crime.

The data show that consistently over the decades, fewer than half of serious crimes are reported to police. Few, if any arrests are made in those cases.... ....

"Ultimately, the person who is most likely to save you and your family from violent attack is the person looking back at you in the mirror in the morning, not someone in uniform. Concealed carry can save your life."

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