Here’s Where Homicides Go Unsolved In Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, PA – There have been 630 homicides in the city of Pittsburgh over the past decade, according to a recent report. Of those, more than 53 percent have gone unsolved.

The Washington Post compiled the data and looked at 50 cities across the nation. The newspaper found that there were 52,175 homicides in the United States in the timeframe. Of those, 51 percent remain unsolved, reports The Post.

In Pittsburgh, from 2007 to 2017, 47 percent of the 630 homicides in resulted in an arrest, according to the analysis. In the city, there were three neighborhood zones – Perry Hilltop, Larimer and Brushton – that had more than eight killings and an arrest rate of less than 30 percent.

A map compiled by The Post also showed areas where fewer than 1 in 3 homicides resulted in an arrest. Nationally, the overall average arrest rate for these areas was 14 percent.

While the majority of homicide victims in Pittsburgh were black, the arrest rates were highest in cases where the victims were Hispanic, white and Asian, according to the Post’s findings. The Post found that in 44 of the 47 cities where a victim’s race was reliably recorded, a white victim’s homicide resulted in an arrest more often than a minority victim’s homicide.

Other findings from the Post’s analysis include:

• 34 of the 50 cities analyzed have a lower homicide arrest rate now compared to a decade ago
• Killings have increased in 17 cities over the past decade and police now make fewer arrests in these cities
• An arrest was made in 63 percent of homicides of white victims compared with 48 percent of Latino victims and 46 percent of black victims
• Almost all the low-arrest zones are home primarily to low-income black residents

>>> See the full report from The Post here

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