Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by delecti on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:47PM
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In comparison to the violence that was going on before the cops pulled out of their precinct, it was definitely more peaceful. It was also many orders of magnitude more peaceful than the current situation at the Capitol.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by ALittleLight on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:54PM
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There were somewhere between 1 and 10 thousand people living in the zone. If we assume it was 10 thousand, and there were 2 murders inside of 10 days, then that works out to a rate of 73 (2*36.5) murders per year per 10k people, or 730 murders per 100k. That's approximately 7 times the rate of the most murderous city in the world[1].
I don't know what the murder rate in the neighborhood was prior to the occupation, but I'm pretty confident it wasn't nearly that high.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate