[dx034]

> When I was young, explosions and gang criminality were extremely rare and uncommon

Are you sure about this? Crime has decreased significantly over the past decades in most countries. I also can't remember any crime from when I was young but my area was much more dangerous back then. But as a child, you don't notice subtle signs of crime and won't get beaten up because you try to prevent people from stealing a bike. And even if that happens to a family member I'm not sure parents tell their children the truth. But asking your parents won't help, memory is always biased, my memory of the area I lived in as a student is also much better than it deserved.

More communication by social media has probably also played a role, it's much easier to track crimes nowadays. But even where crimes were reported back then it's really hard to compare that unless you use official statistics.

[staticelf]

Yes I am sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...

https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1637&ar...

http://www.dagensjuridik.se/2017/09/sverige-i-topp-med-antal...

> In Germany [solved crimes involving shooting] they are close to 90 percent and in Finland more than 90 percent. In Sweden, as the firearm has increased, the level of clearance has also declined steadily since the late 90's.

But yeah, downvote me for stating facts.

[belorn]

The data is complex.

When it come to gang criminality, the biggest change was seen between 1990 and topping during 2010 (2015 was the immigration crisis). The government department for crime statistics (BRÅ) links the increase in blackmail and protection rackets to an increase in gang criminality, resulting in a report 2012 which describing a increase from 500 cases during 1990 to 2500 cases in 2010. [1]

BRÅ do not have data over explosives, but the raw data from the police gives 8 reported cases with hand grenades during 2014 and 52 for 2016. This is a large increase that did happen during the immigration crisis and is speculated to be connected, and the weapons themselves is tracked to Yugoslavia. [2]

For the anecdotal cases in the parent post, violence has both gone up and down in the last 10 years but it did go up between 2014 and 2016 by 28%, which is the highest point since 2007. There is a potential link here for immigration, but 2007 is not that long time ago so it could also be variation.[3]

Threats and harassment did also go up between 2014 and 2016 by 36% and is currently at the highest it ever been for the reported dataset. [4]

The clearing rate for sexual crimes has gone down and is at the lowest it ever been at 11% for rape, but this is a long lasting trend since 2009 where it was as high as 31%. The cause of this is a bit complicated since the number of charged criminals has remained the same and the number of reported cases has increased by almost 50%. There is no correlation to 2015 immigration crisis. [5]

[1] https://www.bra.se/download/18.1ff479c3135e8540b2980007523/1...

[2] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/halland/handgranatsattacke...

[3] https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistik-utifran-bro...

[4] https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistik-utifran-bro...

[5] https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistik-utifran-bro...