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But the 12-block area where Dickson was killed saw an arrest in just 15 percent of its homicides.

In Omaha, police made an arrest in nearly 60 percent of homicides across the city. The federal data fails to distinguish whether a case was closed due to an arrest or other circumstances, such as the death of the suspect, and does not have enough detail to allow for the mapping of unsolved homicides. The data, which The Post is making public, is more precise than the national homicide data published annually by the FBI. Almost all of the low-arrest zones are home primarily to low-income black residents. Homicide arrest rates vary widely when examined by the race of the victim: An arrest was made in 63 percent of the killings of white victims, compared with 48 percent of killings of Latino victims and 46 percent of the killings of black victims. His family is waiting for justice as the city struggles with a surge in homicides.

Alexander Brown, 24, was one of those victims, brutally murdered and dumped in an alley. On Indianapolis’s northeast side, most killings go unsolved. That city has two zones where unsolved homicides are clustered. Roland Holmgren, who leads the department’s criminal investigation division. “If these cases go unsolved, it has the potential to send the message to our community that we don’t care,” said Oakland police Capt. As a result, distrust deepens, and killers remain on the street with no deterrent. All agree that the unsolved killings perpetuate cycles of violence in low-arrest areas.ĭetectives said they cannot solve homicides without community cooperation, which makes it almost impossible to close cases in areas where residents already distrust police. But families of those killed, and even some officers, say the fault rests with apathetic police departments. Police blame the failure to solve homicides in these places on insufficient resources and poor relationships with residents, especially in areas that grapple with drug and gang activity where potential witnesses fear retaliation. As part of an ongoing examination, The Washington Post has compiled and mapped up to a decade of homicide arrest data from 50 of America’s largest cities.