Buried in this interesting article, one of a series on a sequence of murders/assaults in DC, is this statistic: about 110 of the 143 murders in DC last year were part of sequence of tit for tat retributions. Scientists have gamed the right strategy for evolving cooperation, which turns out to be tit for tat with random acts of kindness. Apparently in DC that strategy is alive and well, except for the random acts.
What struck me though was the idea 80 percent of all DC murders involve these relationships, which doesn't leave many for killings within the family or random acts.
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