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It s difficult to find bright spots in homicide statistics.
The lives of so many people involved – the victims families as well as the loved ones of those responsible for the killings – are often irreparably damaged. Those effects are not present in cold data that show 41 people killed in 2020 and 33 of those cases believed cleared.
Even so, the numbers show an encouraging trend toward providing those affected by killings with answers and, perhaps, closure. The city s homicide clearance rate is nearly 81%, well above the national average of about 61%, and Fort Wayne residents should be proud their police are working hard to solve such crimes.