The number of crimes reported in Honolulu dropped by a whopping 28% between 2021 and 2024. But despite having fewer cases to investigate, the percentage of crimes solved by police didn’t improve at nearly the same pace.
That’s according to the Honolulu Police Department’s public dashboard, which logs the department’s clearance rate — the proportion of offenses that resulted in an arrest or another resolution, such as the death of an offender or a lack of cooperation by the victim.
Last year, police cleared roughly 21% of the more than 37,000 offenses reported across Oʻahu. In 2020, only about 17% of the island’s 52,045 reported offenses were cleared…