Can playing cards help catch criminals?

Despite facial recognition and different leapfrogs in expertise it appears cops are getting no higher at cracking crime. For the previous decade the share of murders that has gone unsolved has risen. For the reason that pandemic it has climbed to round 50% for the primary time because the FBI began counting. With extra murderers at giant, investigators are getting artistic.

Final month Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers, a bunch that feeds nameless suggestions from the general public to the police, despatched 2,500 decks of taking part in playing cards to inmates in seven county prisons and jails. As a substitute of jacks and queens, every card has the picture of a gulf-coaster who disappeared or was mysteriously killed. The group hopes that whereas prisoners cross time taking part in spades or gin rummy, they’ll come throughout a case they know one thing about and name in. The technique reportedly labored elsewhere: authorities in Connecticut say that through the years decks like these have helped the state clear up 20 chilly instances; South Carolina claims no less than eight and Florida two.