Use peewee as model and rewrite the code

models.py

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+from peewee import *
+
+db = SqliteDatabase('violence.db')
+
+class BaseModel(Model):
+    class Meta:
+        database = db
+
+class Article(BaseModel):
+    """
+    An article is a single incident as crawled from the reach-out webpage
+    """
+    date = DateField(index=True)
+    month_only = BooleanField(default=False)
+    place = CharField()
+    additional_place = CharField(null=True)
+    description = TextField()
+    hash = BlobField(index=True)
+
+# Set up the tables
+def create_tables():
+    database.connect()
+    database.create_tables([Article])