Washington D.C. police withhold key details about homicide unit amid murder surge
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Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department refused to provide details about its homicide unit that criminologists say could be key to predicting whether the murder clearance rate will continue to drop.
Details such as detectives’ experience level and their caseloads are key factors in a police agency’s closure rate, criminologists told Fox News. But Metropolitan Police Department bureaucrats refused to provide details about its detective staffing.
"Unfortunately, we do not provide specifics on staffing levels assigned to designated units," Kristen Metzger, MPD's deputy communications director, told Fox News in a Friday email. "Our department has the hardest working homicide detectives who work around the clock to follow all leads and bring closure to victims and their families."