Sicily's murder rate doubled in a decade then halved again. [fact]
- In Sicily in 1921 there were 17.7 murders for every 100,000 inhabitants, as opposed to 7.3 in the whole of Italy (in itself a high murder rate) and in contrast to Sicily's own figures of 7.7 ten years earlier (1911) and 3.6 ten years later (1931).
Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 866