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by andyroid 4602 days ago
Providing statistics does not make you a racist. Providing false claims such as "crime is increasing relatively fast" (reported crimes decreased by 1% in 2012 compared to the year before) while trying to attribute this to immigrant groups does.

As for statistics, people with little to no income are also "overrepresented" in crime. Who would have guessed.
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berrypicker 4602 days ago
Like somebody else said in the thread, look at crimes like homicide and theft, whose definition are uncontroversial. Crime is rising.
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pathy 4602 days ago
>År 2012 konstaterades 68 fall av dödligt våld i Sverige, vilket är en minskning jämfört med år 2011, då 81 fall konstaterades. Nivån för 2012 är den lägsta noteringen under de senaste tio åren.

>Antalet fall av dödligt våld uppvisar relativt stora upp- och nedgångar mellan olika år och har den senaste tioårsperioden fluktuerat mellan 68 och 107 fall årligen.

>I ett längre perspektiv uppvisar det dödliga våldet en nedåtgående utveckling.

Source: http://www.bra.se/bra/brott--statistik/mord-och-drap.html

Sorry for the Swedish but basically: Long term the deadly violence has had a downwards trend.

Where are your statistics that they are rising?

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hobbe80 4602 days ago
Well, the only crime that has a really uncontroversial definition would be criminal homicide (certainly a small number could be misattributed to suicide, but still - a dead person is a dead person, no "made up" charges, no non-filed charges). So... according to BRÅ (Crime-prevention council, the government agency in charge of crime-related statistics in Sweden, the following can be said about homicide in Sweden:

- The number of homicides (all kinds) in Sweden 2012 was 68. That is an all time low. - The average over the past 20 years is around 95 homicides per year (and declining) - Adding to that is that the Swedish population has risen with 10.5% the last 20 years (8.7M to 9.6M), meaning the per-capita crime rate has dropped even more - Especially noteworthy is the drop in homicides of children under 15

I would not say theft has an uncontroversial definition, at least not nearly as uncontroversial as homicide...

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