Sweden 2012

[HoreTore]

Sweden a haven for crime? Hah! Now I've heard it all.

Like in Norway, the most reliable measure of crime rate is the number of murders. Murders are the "highest crime", and one can easily assume that an increase or decrease in murders means an increase or decrease in general crime. Murder is also the only fool-proof crime stat. All murders are known, and almost all murders are solved(95% in norway, I assume sweden is the same, excluding pm murders of course). That gives zero dark numbers, as opposed to the extreme dark numbers we find in rape or theft, for example(which nearly nobody reports). An increase in reported rapes, for example, does not necessarily mean an increase in actual rapes taking place, it's more likely that it's due to more people reporting it. An increase in murders is a dead give-away, that means more murders period.

So how are things in Sweden? It's about 90 per year. We have around 30 per year with half the population, so you have a little more than us. And it's gone down over the last 20 years. With increased immigration, you have less crime. Yeah, better kick that pakistani doctor out before he kills anyone.

In conclusion: Sweden are among the countries with the lowest crime rates in the world, and decreasing. People right of center like to paint the devil on the wall and scream about how the world is coming to an end. Life goes on. Everything is how it should be.

Edit: For your amusement.