Maybe absolute number of cases but I highly doubt crime per capita is higher in denser locations. If anything, dense population should deter crime. I suspect it's harder to break into a home or kidnap someone when there are more people around to see or hear.
This is a bizarre view. Even if you go 100% reactionary and treat every 2020 protest as a "riot," the entire year pales in comparison to a single riot in a single neighborhood during the 1960s[1]. Our modern protests (including the "violent" ones) are downright bucolic.
