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Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. When database editor Steven Rich gets involved in an investigation, revelations almost always follow. This week Rich, database editor Ted Mellnik and reporters Wesley Lowery and Kimbriell Kelly delivered a blockbuster look at how often homicides go unsolved in 50 of America's largest and most violent cities. In some neighborhoods in Indianapolis, Baltimore and Omaha, arrests are rarely made. With the help of Post researchers, designers and editors, they mapped and analyzed where those killings occur. Rich, who has worked on two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects in his five years at The Post, said the idea for "Murder with Impunity" began almost two years ago with a story about Chicago's spike in homicides. What he, Lowery and Kelly realized, he said, was that "Chicago was getting really bad at solving homicides." In analyzing 25 years worth of data, Rich learned that the solve rate had fal...