Cologne sex attacks: women made to "run gauntlet"

[Jemmy Bloocher]

I used to live in Sweden and what a great time I had. I was only there for
about 18 months,  but I remember remarking on a rape that had been reported
on the front page of a local newspaper as being the first serious crime I
had seen reported. It was curious. No doubt serious crime exists and
domestic issues abound (there's a heck of a lot of suicide to boot ),  but
I certainly never felt safer.
On 8 Jan 2016 21:07, "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sweden’s latest murder statistics have come out for the year of 2012,
> and this is really bad news for racists.
>
> Remember the murder statistic is a very objective crime statistic
> since it doesn’t rely much upon the rate of reporting, a country’s
> laws, and is difficult to falsely report. So the homicide rate and
> count is very objective when compared to many other crime statistics.
>
> Here’s the official crime statistic:
> http://bra.se/bra/brott–statistik/mord-och-drap.html
>
> The murder count in Sweden in 2012 was 68, which comes to a murder
> rate of 0.71 per 100,000 for 2012, which is lower than all 50 US
> states, almost every country on the entire planet, and one of the very
> lowest murder rates in Sweden history!
>
> So Sweden has now achieved an unthinkable astronomically low murder
> rate of 0.71! Sweden’s murder rate in 2012 (with more Muslim
> immigration) is even lower than it was in 2011, one of the very very
> very lowest murder rates in all of Sweden history.
>
> To put things into perspective, let’s look at number of murders in US
> states with population sizes closest to Sweden’s 9.6 million
> population (Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina) since the murder rate
> is in proportion to the population size:
> - Georgia had more than 550 murders in 2011
> - Michigan had more than 600 murders in 2011
> - North Carolina had more than 500 murders in 2011
>
> Source:
> http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-4
>
> So this means that the US state with the lowest murder count and
> population size closest to Sweden (North Carolina) had nearly 100 more
> murders in 1 year than Sweden did in 5 years.
>
> Sweden’s murder count in 5 years (2008-2012) would be 414, where as
> North Carolina’s murder count is above 500 in just 1 year.
>
> The murder count in Sweden in 2012 was 68. You’ll have to go all the
> way back to maybe the 1960s or 1970s to find Sweden murder rates this
> low.
>
> I thought there was more crime in Sweden? If crime is up and there’s
> much more violence, wouldn’t the murder count and murder rate go up
> dramatically and be higher than at least a few US states? So where’s
> all the ‘crime’?
>
> Not only is the murder rate lower, the murder count is lower than ever as
> well.
>
> Apparently there’s more ‘crime’ and violence in Sweden, but Sweden is
> safer than all 50 US states (the US state with the lowest murder rate
> in 2011 had a murder rate of 1.2 per 100,000).
>
> I guess we can’t blame people for being misled. Who has time to read
> official crime statistics, instead of garbage on quasi-fascist blog
> sites?
>
> (Partially edited from source to remove stupid-sounding invective)
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > Amen to that.
> >
> > Am 08.01.2016 um 21:18 schrieb Johnny Marr:
> >>
> >> I'd rather they removed all religious priveliges in one fell swoop
> >> (believe what you want in peaceful privacy, but don't expect religious
> >> institutions to receive state subsidies, mitigatory law making or tax
> >> exemptions on the grounds of being a force for social good or a deeply
> >> held community belief).
> >
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