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PublicSource, in collaboration with 90.5 WESA, examined the ongoing tragedy of unsolved homicides in Pittsburgh and the disparate impact on the city’s black community. Half of the city’s homicides went unsolved from 2010 through 2015.
A staggering 97 percent of unsolved murders had a black victim. Our reporting includes interviews with victims’ families, law enforcement and community leaders.
We also examined years of police and court records to create a database to show when cases result in an arrest and court conviction – and how often the system fails.
How many gun crimes happened within a mile of your home? Using police data, we built a map that allows you to type in your address and see.
Since January 2010, Pittsburgh has had more than 322 gun homicides, 1,250 shootings with an injury and 1,490 gun assaults. Many of these are on the map.
