Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by ubercore on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:09PM
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Source, please. For both parts of that claim.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by themaninthedark on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:05PM
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I'm sure that was hyperbole, CHAZ/CHOP has 2 deaths and 4 wounded in a 24 day period.
So the murder rate is 2/24=0.0833_
Somalia had a murder rate of 599 deaths in 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
599/365=1.641
That being said, at least 1 of the killings at the CHAZ/CHOP was by the self proclaimed security forces. As far as I know no one has ever been identified or held accountable. If the idea is that you do not need police/ want to hold them to greater accountability because they are violent and kill innocent people but your replacement does the same thing...then what is the point?
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by bumby on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:51PM
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Murder rates are typically reported on a per capita basis, not per day rate.
Siri is reporting CHAZ had a population of 80(??) and Somolia a population of 15MM. The respective per capita rates would be 0.025 and ~3.99e-5
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by themaninthedark on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:39PM
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I apologize, some how I misread the parent as saying that there were more murders per day....
I am not sure how I misread that.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by bumby on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:00AM
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No reason to apologize, just trying to add some context/clarity
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by viridian on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:58PM
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Murder rate is a per capita statistic. Larger populations have more of all types of crime, almost by definition.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by themaninthedark on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:55PM
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I know that, for some reason I had misread the parent as saying that more murders occurred per day. My brain may have translated rate as change over time....