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On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, it’s useful to take a look at its legacy. There are plenty of ways to measure the depravity that we’ve seen during the past several months, but it’s simplest to focus on the following themes: arrests, assaults, death and disease – plus the financial burden that the rest of the country has to shoulder in order to clean it all up:Number of arrests: 3,621 (via Occupy Arrests )Number of deaths: 4 – one murder, one suicide, one suspected drug overdose and one mystery.Number of sexual assaults: At least seven that have...

Rather than just an unordered list, I was thinking it might be helpful to categorize the mayhem by type. Arson Occupy Fort Collins – Member arrested, $10 million in damage Occupy Portland - Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail Occupy Seattle – Suspicious fire at Bank of America 2.7 miles from camp Occupy Portland – Three men arrested with homemade grenades Assault/Threats Occupy SF – 12 assaults in 24 hours Occupy LA – 4 assaults including two with knives Occupy Philly – Man punches woman in the face Occupy LA – Two assaults including setting someone on fire Occupy Berkeley...

While it is easy to point to the thousands of ugly, violent, and prejudiced things that so many Occupy Wall Street protesters have done so far, it is tough to put a specific number on them. Thanks to liberal mayors and OWSers intentionally not reporting crimes, many criminals have gotten off scott free. Instead, I decided to make a list of all the crimes that OWS has committed that I can actually cite with news articles. Therefore, prejudiced or racist vulgarities, and the like, screamed by Occupy protesters have not been included. And simply because I could, I included the...