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Sweden will do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end a wave of violence that has seen a string of deadly shootings, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in Wednesday.
Sweden's murder rate is relatively low in international terms, but gang violence has surged in recent years and Swedes are worried that the police are unable to cope.
In 2016, the latest year for which official statistics are available, 106 people were murdered in Sweden, a country of 10 million.
But Swedish TV reported there were over 300 shootings, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @10:22PM (9 children)
Three things:
* "Are refugee men over-represented in Swedish crime" is he wrong question. The correct question is whether people of non-Swedish, and even more markedly non western-European origin are over-represented in crime statistics, to which the answer is a resounding "yes, very much so". The number of actual refugees in Sweden is relatively low, most migrants move to Sweden for economic reasons or to join a family member (often known as an "anchor") who successfully claimed asylum there. On the over-representation of certain groups of migrants you can read more in the (by now somewhat outdated but the current government does not allow more study on this subject...) study on this subject by BRÅ (Brottsförebyggande Rådet, crime prevention council) [1], suffice to say that the chance that a migrant commits a crime was 2.5 times that of a native (risen from 2.1 times in the previous study, the current number is higher but can not officially be published), for some crimes (e.g. aggravated rape) the number rises dramatically up to 25 in some cases.
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* While Sweden had gang problems before - e.g. the turf war between Hells Angels and Bandidos - the current situation where parts of certain towns and cities are classed as "no-go zones" for police and other services is new. The scale of the gang problem is also new.
* The Swedish government is not a reliable source to go to when looking for "facts about migration, integration and crime" as they have failed in all three of those areas and do their best to hide these facts. Better information can be had from independent researchers like (economist) Tino Sanandaji [2], (researcher) Magnus Norell [3] etc.
[1] https://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800012697/1371914727881/2005_17_brottslighet_bland_personer_fodda_sverige_och_utlandet.pdf [www.bra.se]
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Sanandaji [wikipedia.org]
[3] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Norell [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 26 2018, @11:07PM (5 children)
pdf and in Sweden, doesn't play well even with the shitty Google translate. Have something more accessible, please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 5, Interesting) by looorg on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:13AM (4 children)
Probably not. If you want to read about Swedish crime statistics then you more or less have to be able to read Swedish, they only really do minor summaries in English at best and it's something they only started to do very recently. Google translate is hardly helpful in these matters.
That said this is not really unknown territory as far as statistics go. The normally cited report from BRÅ in regards to over-representation in crime among and compared between the normal population and immigrants is a report from 1996 called "Invandrare och invandrares barns brottslighet" (roughly translated to immigrants and their childrens criminality) which without a doubt states the over-representation in crimes of immigrants and their children (or second generation immigrants) is massive when it comes to violent crimes. If separated out by country of origin the problem was mostly focused on people from northern Africa and the middle east. The immigrants from other parts of the world such as eastern Asia and the countries that are next to Sweden was not an issue or deviated from the normal, if anything there was a lot of countries that was under-represented compared to the main population. There was a follow up about ten years later that showed the exact same things.
No new reports have been produced after these for some fairly obvious reasons, first nothing changed for the better and secondly they where a real problem for the politicians that wanted an open border multicultural society so no new reports were ordered to be produced.. So unless shown that the trend has somehow magically gone in another different or opposite direction, which there is absolutely no evidence for, one can fairly safely assume that there is a massive over representation among certain groups of male foreigners when it comes to violent crimes in Sweden, and probably also in many other countries.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:10AM (3 children)
This is also true in America, though all the studies about it get suppressed! Most of the crime in North America, for that matter, is committed by immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, mostly white people from Europe. Indigenous people commit a vanishingly small number of crimes in America. The only solution is to close the boarders, build a Wall-E and deport all those violent Washita back to where they came from. It should be obvious by now that they cannot be assimilated.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:29AM (2 children)
http://grammarist.com/homophones/border-vs-boarder/ [grammarist.com]
So it is your position that if all of the bed and breakfasts, all hotels and motels, dormitories, and the like were to be closed down, the criminal problem would - magically disappear? Yeah, probably so. If all those boarders were left standing in the rain, many would catch pneumonia, die, and disappear after they were dropped into holes in the ground.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 28 2018, @09:44AM (1 child)
Yes! Close the boarders, and the edgings! Block off the sedge! Eliminate the liminal. Eradicate the Frontier. Mark the Telemark! Send the convicts to face the barbarians! Erase the margins! Flush the estuaries. Open the gates! Spill the liquid that divides! Merge, Runaway, merge with the "all that is", and peace will find you. If not, it was fifty bucks well spent.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @03:00PM
Ότι όλα μου ακούγονται σαν Έλληνες.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday February 26 2018, @11:58PM (2 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Sanandaji [wikipedia.org]
So, an economic "scientist" with a hobby for social "sciences", who doesn't want to be tainted by prev research on immigration.
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https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Norell [wikipedia.org]
Debate rages in Sweden over Muslim Brotherhood report [thelocal.se]
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Excuse me, but I feel the number of grains of salt I need to take with the independent researcher cited goes well above my sodium tolerance - I'm not that young anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:49AM
So, Swedish Nazis, then? What we may call "Quisling Meatballs"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:13AM
Nothing worth losing your head over [wikipedia.org] but you can always consult crime rates in origin countries [answersafrica.com] as a proxy. Also; Colombia makes the list, hardly a ringing endorsement of Socialism given the Venezuelan exodus.