• NickwithaC
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      196 months ago

      People move yo. It’s what we’ve always done and will always continue to do. Wherever things are shit, people will move to places where they are better.

        • @[email protected]
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          6 months ago

          I can’t find any figures showing an actual crime wave in Sweden (excepting a sharp spike in 2020 followed by a significant decline in 2021, but 2020 had other circumstances that contributes that are distinctly different from immigration). What are you talking about? Right-wing parties always talk about how much worse the crime rates are due to immigrants, but data never seems to appear which supports this.

          • @[email protected]
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            76 months ago

            The problem with that is that you are using facts and evidence. This already dismantled the entire position and now nothing can save this guy

          • Iceblade
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            56 months ago

            You can have a look here (government site in Swedish) for crimes divided by category:

            https://bra.se/statistik/statistik-om-brottstyper.html

            Whilst the sum total of crimes has fallen, the amount of serious violent crime has significantly increased and in some categories to never-before seen levels in Swedish history (bombings for instance).

            In these statistics I would highlight murders, organised crime, threats and attempts to influence society, threats and harassment, weapon crimes, sex crimes and vandalism.

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              I can’t seem to access the first, so I will focus on the second.

              1.) It is a study of Norway, not Sweden.

              2.) The categories all kinda fluctuate, but the specific rates that are higher appear to be non-violent and the largest increase is traffic violations.

              3.) This does not show an increase in crime rates overall as a result of immigration.

              4.) Immigrant communities tend to be overpoliced which may explain increases in non-violent crime rates amongst the immigrant population (see this link detailing how Norwegian police purposefully focused on immigrants over the native population as an example of over-policing: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362480619873347).

              I likely missed details in this report as I do not read or speak Norwegian, but if I missed something vital, feel free to highlight it.

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                  66 months ago

                  1.) If you spend more time and resources looking for crime in one population than in another, then you are likely to find more crime in the scrutinized population.

                  2.) If it is about preserving a culture, there is no need to bring up crime rates.

                • @[email protected]
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                  46 months ago

                  Even if crime wasn’t a problem, we should be allowed to protect our culture. Not every country needs to be like USA.

                  Culture always changes. The culture of your country has not been like this since the dawn of time. There is no good reason, why it should stay just the way it is right now, only because “that’s the way it always has been” in your memory. Also if the newly arriving people make all of your felloelw countrypeople abandon their old ways, maybe their was something wrong with those traditions to begin with. If you are only worried because the new people will bring their own culture and stick to it, that just adds to the culture and doesn’t take yours away.

                  And I’m not even sure why I have to defend myself.

                  I personally think one needs really good reasons if one chooses to defend xenophobic policies and puts millions of people under the general suspicion of spreading crime and violence while nearly all of them are just trying to get away from the war and violence in the countries where they are coming from.