Bridgeport homicides decline, but so do solved cases

BRIDGEPORT — Homicides in Bridgeport dropped to 11 in 2018, down from 23 the year before. But the percentage of those killings that police say have been solved also declined. At the close of 2017, 19 investigations into that year’s homicides had led to arrests or closed cases — a “clearance rate” for the year 82.6 percent. Another arrest was made in 2018, leaving 20 of the 23 cases closed. This year, however, detectives have made arrests in only four (36.4 percent) of 2018’s homicides — those of Francine Nyanzanika, Willie Nance, Emily Todd and Clinton Howell. Nationwide, the homicide clearance rate jumped up from 59.4 percent in 2016 to 61.

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