Wall Street Protests

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

http://www.flashalertnewswire.net/im..._stat_comp.pdf

http://www.examiner.com/conservative...-up-18-percent

Ok, we can play quote a % game

The Police Report for the Downtown District of Savannah shows
a 15 % increase in violent crimes (YTD 2011 over YTD 2010).

Week ending 11/5/11 Violent Crimes up 15%
---------------Homicide----Rape---Robbery---Assaults-----Total
YTD 2011---------6---------6---------113---------56---------191
YTD 2010---------4---------3----------12---------69---------165

Did the 2-day Occupy Savannah event cause this 15% increase in violent crime ?
Of course not.

With respect to your link to PDX, it is just such a headline that I have been saying is misleading.
That report covers PDX Police Districts 832, 840 and 850.
These are shown in the pic below.
Those three areas make up the entire downtown Portand business district, inside the freeways.

Everyone can interpret the map as they please, but it's my opinion that
if Occupy Portland caused such an increase,
it would surely appear as a different pattern on the map above,
centered on the encampment area.

The number for District # 830 only could be more informative.
Although there were 0 "trespass" cases in 2010, I'm reasonably sure
the 37 cases in 2011 cases are connected to Occupy PDX.
Those are almost half of the total (90) used to get the 18%

Merc, my hope is that you're take another look at these links,
and maybe change your views a bit.... Sure, that'll happen !
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