With just one day to go before the end of the year, only 27 of the 72 killings reported, about 38 percent, had been solved as of yesterday. Cases are considered solved when a suspect is arrested or identified in an arrest warrant.
The cases that do go to trial are likely to result in guilty verdicts: The Suffolk District Attorney’s trial conviction rate remains high at 85 percent in 2010, which prosecutors and police attribute to taking time to build solid cases.
Of course, they'll be quickly paroled and let out on the street to murder police officers, but that's another story. It's quite telling that here in MA - home of some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation - there's still an epidemic of violence, a good chunk of which is committed, yes, with firearms. Requiring the law-abiding to jump through hoops doesn't stop criminals and thugs from getting guns, it just means fewer armed citizens to shoot back.
Finding, arresting, and incarcerating those responsible, OTOH, is proven to have a marked effort on reducing the crime rate. Sadly, that's a lesson MA has yet to learn, preferring to "one gun a month" idiocy and the failed "ballistic fingerprinting" and a whole host of other ideas that will not affect crime in the least but will hamper those that want to legally provide for their own defense.
But then again, it's not about controlling crime, is it?
That is all.
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