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by kungtotte 2732 days ago
If you read crime statistics reports from places like BRĂ…, violent crime is actually down especially in proportion to the increasing population levels.

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Also, to add, during the Syrian refugee wave of 2015/2016, the second largest group to come here after Syrians were repatriating Swedes. We didn't get 200K war refugees during the wave on top of our regular immigration. It was 200K including repatriating Swedes and the normal immigration we see year over year.

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Perhaps overall, but murders are up quite a bit: https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/m... Robberies: https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/r...

I certainly hope you're right though. But anecdotally, I know of enough people getting robbed with guns and knives that I don't feels as safe as I did 10 years ago.

I pulled the 200k out of thin air. I'm talking more about the sum over the past few years rather than a specific peak.