El Salvador's murder rate is now the highest it's been since the end of the country's brutal civil war — there is on average around one murder an hour.
Now, after 20 years of "assertive policing," a city of more than 8 million averages about one murder a day -- that's more than 1,600 lives saved each year from the "Wild West" of the early 1990s.
Today, due to strong policing, a decline in the use of illicit drugs like crack and a general upgrade in the quality of life in the city, we are averaging less than one murder a day, a very impressive feat.
Most murders were committed with knives, and -- contrary to the myth of primitive violence -- there were few murders outside Indian warfare (in North Carolina, on the average, there was only one murder every two years between 1663 and 1740).
The average one is about 68.
"One murder is one murder too many," Mr. Morgenthau said.
That's over one murder a month.
Ulbricht himself requested murders and allegedly paid for them using Bitcoin – one murder cost a little under 2,000 BTC.
