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by draugadrotten
4601 days ago
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> No part of the article supports any kind of idea of a crisis in the Swedish police's ability to solve crimes I can't be reading the same article as you, but I'll leave it at that. Since you claim to read Swedish, try this google search for Swedish police solves fewer crimes:
https://www.google.se/#q=svensk+polis+l%C3%B6ser+f%C3%B6rre+... I paraphrase the first few hits: - Despite more money, fewer crimes a solved (SVT.SE)
- The police solves fewer crimes despite new billions (DN.SE)
- Police solves fewer crimes than ever (Aftonbladet)
- Police increasingly worse at solving crimes (Expressen)
- Finnish police solves 80% - Swedish solves 17% (Exponerat)
- Swedish police solves even fewer crimes (HBL.FI) and the list goes on. I can't be reading the same internet as you, if you can't find quote a few recent articles about the abysmal police work in Sweden. |
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Comparisons between countries that are based on their individual crime statistics require caution since such statistics are produced differently in different countries. Criminal statistics do not provide a simple reflection of the level of crime in a given country.
Criminal statistics are influenced by both legal and statistical factors, and by the extent to which crime is reported and registered. These factors can vary from one country to another. There are no international standards for how crime statistics should be produced and presented and this makes international comparisons difficult.
The comparison with Finnland doesn't hold. Also the 17% you quote directly contradicts the 6% in your earlier article, at least one of the two can't be right.
Then again, the GP doesn't contradict the assertion that the overall ratio is now lower than a year ago. You're nit refuting his point. His argument is that the police now concentrates less on easily solvable crimes that have little effect on the general population but rather on more difficult crimes with significant effect on the general population - which in my book is a good thing. Tying police success or failure to a statistic that measures something only tangentially related is a mistake, albeit a common one, even in high profile newspapers. (cue rant about journalism today).
http://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statisti...