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No, there are definitely not nightly shootings in Capitol Hill. And all of the shootings that happened during CHAZ were related to the protesters and anarchists. The conclusions I made above aren't being drawn, they are well established and undisputed facts. The zone lasted nine days, there four nights of shooting and two dead plus a few wounded.

The CHAZ protesters were violent. They vandalized the area with graffiti and left lots of litter. They killed innocent people. They occupied a few city blocks, where people lived, forced businesses to shut down and turned it into this noisy, dirty, dangerous block party for a week or so.




This shows an "NA" for every crime stat, including murder, in Capitol Hill.

If the estimates on this page are right, Capitol Hill has 3x national average, and national average is 6 murders per 100k. So this is estimating Capitol Hill has 20 murders per 100k per year. If you assume that all 32k people in the neighborhood were in CHAZ then to get a per 100k rate we would say 2 / 32 to get murders per thousand, multiply by 100 to get murders per 100k, then multiply by 35.6 to convert the ten days of CHAZ to a year, and we get an estimated murder rate of 223 per 100k, or 37x the murder rate estimate for Capitol Hill from this website. And, of course, not nearly all 32k people were in CHAZ. And, of course, the four separate shooting events within 10 days lends credence to the notion that CHAZ was extraordinarily violent.

Or, practically speaking, if you live in Seattle, then you just know that shootings don't happen in Capitol Hill every night, because you hear about them when they do happen.




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