We've compiled detailed arrest data for 52,000 homicides across 50 major American cities, analyzing whose homicides are most likely to result in an arrest, and whose homicides are not.

-Police is major American cities make an arrest in just 49 percent of homicides
-34 out of 50 cities now have lower homicide arrest rates than they did a decade ago, even though the vast major of cities now experience fewer homicides
-While an arrest is made in 62 percent of homicides of white victims, arrests are made just 46 percent of the time when the victim is black, and 48 percent of the time when the victim is Latino

“How these white newspapers reported on race, and how they signaled blackness as threatening, contributed to not just perceptions about black people, but stirred responses … that imperiled the lives of African Americans” https://www.poynter.org/maligned-in-black-white/