Which Major Crime Has The Highest Clearance Rate?

America is ranked as a country where crime rate is higher than many countries, and where there is a list of crimes that are prevalent throughout the nation.

Criminal activities exist in every country, but is there a law and order strict enough to prevent crimes and protect innocent victims? So many crimes happen every day as a result of criminal motives and negligence, so which one of these have the highest clearance rate?

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What is the Clearance Rate in Criminal Justice?

A clearance rate is a mathematical tool to determine which criminal cases have been cleared- meaning, which criminal cases have been charged and what amount of criminals have been arrested or punished.

According to statistics, murder and manslaughter are the crimes with the highest clearance rate in the United States- with 61.4% cases being cleared in 2019.

In criminal justice, the clearance rate is calculated by dividing the number of crimes that are cleared (a charge being laid) by the total number of crimes recorded.

What Percentage of Crimes are solved?

According to a report published in 2017, 47% of the violent crimes and 35% of the property crimes tracked by the Bureau of Justice Statistics were reported to the police. In 2015, 46% of the violent crimes and 19% of the property crimes reported to police in the U.S. were cleared, according to FBI data.

Between 1995 and 2015, the share of violent crimes reported to police each year ranged from 40% to 51%; for property crimes, the share ranged from 32% to 40%. During the same period, the share of violent crimes cleared by police ranged from 44% to 50%; for property crimes, annual clearance rates ranged from 16% to 20%.

But still, that is not all. Statistics report that, based on UCR data, our nation currently has 250,000 unsolved murders, a number that increases by about 6,000 each year.

Which country is the highest in Crime?

According to statistics provided by Numbeo, this is the ranking of countries with the highest crime rates in the world.

Rank	Country	Crime Index	Safety Index
1	Venezuela	84.36	15.64
2	Papua New Guinea	80.04	19.96
3	South Africa	77.29	22.71
4	Afghanistan	76.97	23.03
5	Honduras	76.65	23.35
6	Trinidad And Tobago	72.43	27.57
7	Brazil	68.31	31.69
8	Guyana	68.15	31.85
9	El Salvador	67.84	32.16
10	Syria	67.42	32.58
11	Jamaica	67.20	32.80
12	Namibia	66.12	33.88
13	Angola	65.74	34.26
14	Peru	65.65	34.35
15	Puerto Rico	64.75	35.25
16	Bangladesh	63.82	36.18
17	Nigeria	63.27	36.73
18	Bahamas	62.74	37.26
19	Libya	62.27	37.73
20	Argentina	62.26	37.74
21	Kenya	61.73	38.27
22	Dominican Republic	61.04	38.96
23	Fiji	59.57	40.43
24	Zimbabwe	58.86	41.14
25	Guatemala	58.59	41.41
26	Malaysia	58.55	41.45
27	Tanzania	57.80	42.20
28	Mongolia	57.47	42.53
29	Uganda	56.14	43.86
30	Bolivia	56.13	43.87
31	Somalia	56.04	43.96
32	Costa Rica	55.59	44.41
33	Colombia	54.94	45.06
34	Kazakhstan	54.81	45.19
35	Maldives	54.61	45.39
36	Botswana	53.47	46.53
37	Mexico	53.31	46.69
38	Uruguay	53.02	46.98
39	Ecuador	52.66	47.34
40	Cambodia	52.18	47.82
41	Algeria	50.41	49.59
42	Paraguay	49.60	50.40
43	Chile	49.60	50.40
44	Ethiopia	49.23	50.77
45	Morocco	48.97	51.03
46	Iran	48.91	51.09
47	Ukraine	48.84	51.16
48	Ghana	48.64	51.36
49	Iraq	48.00	52.00
50	United States	47.70	52.30
51	Sweden	47.43	52.57

Note: Sample rates have been extracted online, courtesy of Numbeo

Crime Clearance Rate by City

Here are 60 cities of the world compared with each other based on the crime and safety index, as evaluated by Numbeo. The country with the highest clearance rate has been ranked at a higher position.

Rank	City	Crime Index	Safety Index
1	Caracas, Venezuela	84.57	15.43
2	Pretoria, South Africa	81.89	18.11
3	San Pedro Sula, Honduras	81.35	18.65
4	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	81.05	18.95
5	Pietermaritzburg, South Africa	80.93	19.07
6	Durban, South Africa	80.80	19.20
7	Johannesburg, South Africa	80.31	19.69
8	Fortaleza, Brazil	78.51	21.49
9	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	77.42	22.58
10	Kabul, Afghanistan	77.22	22.78
11	Port Elizabeth, South Africa	76.85	23.15
12	Recife, Brazil	76.81	23.19
13	Porto Alegre, Brazil	75.79	24.21
14	Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago	75.70	24.30
15	Memphis, TN, United States	75.61	24.39
16	Salvador, Brazil	75.60	24.40
17	Baltimore, MD, United States	74.75	25.25
18	Detroit, MI, United States	73.79	26.21
19	Cape Town, South Africa	73.67	26.33
20	Klang, Malaysia	71.51	28.49
21	San Salvador, El Salvador	71.00	29.00
22	São Paulo, Brazil	70.67	29.33
23	Saint Louis, MO, United States	70.63	29.37
24	Albuquerque, NM, United States	69.95	30.05
25	Windhoek, Namibia	69.40	30.60
26	Rosario, Argentina	69.38	30.62
27	San Juan, Puerto Rico	69.12	30.88
28	Kingston, Jamaica	69.05	30.95
29	Mexico City, Mexico	68.80	31.20
30	Lima, Peru	68.78	31.22
31	Almaty, Kazakhstan	67.95	32.05
32	Damascus, Syria	67.39	32.61
33	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	67.25	32.75
34	Milwaukee, WI, United States	67.19	32.81
35	Campinas, Brazil	66.92	33.08
36	Tijuana, Mexico	65.49	34.51
37	Baghdad, Iraq	65.49	34.51
38	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	65.35	34.65
39	Guayaquil, Ecuador	65.34	34.66
40	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	65.03	34.97
41	Tripoli, Libya	64.59	35.41
42	Manila, Philippines	64.56	35.44
43	New Orleans, LA, United States	64.49	35.51
44	Dhaka, Bangladesh	64.40	35.60
45	Male, Maldives	64.40	35.60
46	Chicago, IL, United States	64.24	35.76
47	Lagos, Nigeria	64.23	35.77
48	Oakland, CA, United States	64.23	35.77
49	Cleveland, OH, United States	64.10	35.90
50	Houston, TX, United States	64.06	35.94
51	Anchorage, AK, United States	63.34	36.66
52	Curitiba, Brazil	63.16	36.84
53	Puebla, Mexico	63.13	36.87
54	Quezon City, Philippines	62.78	37.22
55	Guadalajara, Mexico	62.66	37.34
56	Guatemala City, Guatemala	62.64	37.36
57	Atlanta, GA, United States	62.64	37.36
58	Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	62.48	37.52
59	Brasilia, Brazil	61.74	38.26
60	Catania, Italy	61.58	38.42

Conclusion

There are different kinds of crimes that happen every day in the world, and more so in the United States. Being a first-world country, the crime rate in the US is at a 47.70 in the crime rate index, ranking 50th in the world. The percentage is 5.30%.

Murder and manslaughter are the crimes with the highest clearance rate, meaning most criminals have either been arrested or charged from the recorded cases.