As any regular viewer of TV cop shows knows, homicide investigators are obsessed with some version of "the board" which contains the color-coded names of open and closed cases. Failure to close cases is very bad.
Many people get killed in Philadelphia. It's very bad. I've noticed recently that the press doesn't really have a version of "the board," or at least one that I can find. That is, while there's a regular tally of deaths, there isn't a regular tally of how many of these cases have been solved.
