(World Views "Peaceful Protest is much more effective than violence
for toppling Dictators)
for toppling Dictators)
This chart shows that from 1900 until 2006, the success rate of peaceful protest trumped that of violent protest by a large margin. Furthermore, the rate of failure for violent protests is at a much greater percent than peaceful rallys. This shows that the means of peaceful protest is one that is proven to be successful and saves the lives of many in the process. However, if people who protest peacefully are arrested for a non violent reason , it will force the nation to return to these means of violence. Either way, they will still be arrested.
(World Views "Peaceful Protest is much more effective than violence
for toppling Dictators)
for toppling Dictators)
This chart illustrates that the success rate for nonviolent protests is far more superior to that of violent protests. As time goes on this trend will hopefully continue its trend eventually ending the era of violent protest for good.
This video by Erica Chenoweth, a well defined Political Violence speaker, describes the success found behind peaceful protest and the reasons why the government must not arrest those who protest.