Why do many criminal cases go away after they are filed?

The overall detection rate of China is around 40% every year, ranking high in the world. The detection rate of homicide cases in China has remained above 90%. However, this published data is greatly exaggerated (in many cases, it cannot be broken). In fact, for ordinary criminal cases, the detection rate is generally only about 20%. The root cause is a serious shortage of police force and funds.

Contrast: Except the cases handled by the traffic police, the detection rate of all reports received by the British police is 30.3%. According to the annual announcement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a violent crime occurs every 22 seconds in the United States on average, and the detection rate is only 44.3%. Japanese police only solve 23.6% of criminal cases other than traffic in their annual "crime book".

False high: The detection rate of homicide cases in China has remained above 90%. However, it is hard to hide the fact that there are more criminal cases that are relatively harmless but have not been investigated by the police. Since 2 1 century, all kinds of crimes against property still rank first among all kinds of crimes. The sum of theft, robbery and fraud cases is basically above 78%, which has remained at a high level. At the same time, economic crimes are on the rise, involving huge amounts of money and bad social impact. A large number of ordinary criminal cases are "powerless" for the police. Practical experience from the grassroots level should prove this judgment. The Public Security Bureau of Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province "blew its own dirty linen". He once said, "Although the detection rate of homicide cases has reached 100% for two consecutive years, the detection rate of general criminal cases handled by the criminal investigation squadron in the station is obviously low, always hovering around 10%, especially in the case of property infringement, which accounts for 85% of the total number of cases, the detection rate is only about 6%."