A PLOS study showed extremely sharp decreases in the number of civil unrest incidents across the world in Asia, Africa, Europe and America from 1919 to 2008, focusing on demonstrations of over 100 individuals in “general strikes, riots, and anti-government demonstrations” that were reported in the New York Times, 9,455 “social unrest events” in total. Would these diagrams show a spike up at the tail end, if the decade after 2008 is considered?
Armstrong Economics seems to have one of the more detailed lists of major “US Civil Unrest Incidents.” It includes 25 incidents between 2007 and 2013. So, I will use it and the biggest news stories from 2014-2017 to compile a summarizing table on these incidents: