This piece describes six reasons that the clearance rate for homicides has declined.
None of them mention my guess at a possible reason: a higher proportion of gang/drug-related murders. There were gangs in the 60's; the Mafia was active. But it seems to me there's more conflict among gangs now, fights over territory for selling drugs, etc. Gangs have and enforce the code of silence, and they have more power to intimidate possible witnesses.
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