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It's not hard if you just skip the middle man and look at the data you want to observe. Yes, Sweden takes in (per capita) among the most refugees. [1] This has
by croon 10y ago
It's not hard if you just skip the middle man and look at the data you want to observe.
Yes, Sweden takes in (per capita) among the most refugees. [1] This has been the case when I've looked at data for at least 4-5 years.
Yet violent crimes has gone down. [2]
> Honestly, I have no idea what's going on in Sweden. I've heard so many different stories and it's hard to know who to trust when neither the media nor the government are trustworthy.
What specifically is it that you don't trust or wish you had more information about?
I see nothing wrong in the article you link. It's interviewing a representative of the rise of "Sweden Democrats", which is a nationalistic party on the rise that has gotten ~20% of the electorate, in a multi party country, which is very significant.
It's however not relevant to any crime statistics or unrest, but merely _perceived_ unrest, much like the alt-right movement, Brexit, and similar.
A lot of Swedish statistics are mandatorily published in English, so it's not terribly difficult to get it if you try.
[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-chart http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/09/daily-c...
[2] https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statistics.html https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist...
- leereeves 10y ago> Yet violent crimes has gone down. https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statistics.html https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist... Those stats only go up to 2014, before the refugee crisis.
- croon 10y agoIt's the same year as the refugee stats I posted.
- leereeves 10y agoBut not relevant to the effects of the massive increase in immigration in 2015 and 2016.
- croon 10y agohttps://www.migrationsverket.se/English/About-the-Migration-Agency/Facts-and-statistics-/Statistics.html https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/About-the-Migration-... You're right in that there is a spike in 2015, but the 2014 stats are more than twice as high as 2016. And regardless of which, it's completely relevant if we want to measure immigration as a factor on crime.
- leereeves 10y agoI have a hard time reconciling those numbers with what's reported in the media. Half as many applications in 2016 as in 2013? Those are only "asylum" applications...could they be processing people under other categories now?
- croon 10y agoNot unless you're interested in work permits. What media are you referring to? This is literally the Swedish equivalent of the USCIS. If you rather listen to your preferred outlet reporting otherwise, then bias is certainly at large.
- leereeves 10y agoI've never heard any media (of whatever bias) report either that Sweden stopped immigration, cutting asylum to half the level of 2013, or that refugees have ceased trying to immigrate to Sweden. If either of those are true, that would be a story I'd like to read. Has anyone reported that? I'd like to know why those numbers fell. Did Sweden stop immigration? Did refugees stop coming? Are refugees being admitted in some other way, not counting as asylum? Edit: I found an article in Foreign Policy from over a year ago. According to them, Sweden closed the door. http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/the-death-of-the-most-generous-nation-on-earth-sweden-syria-refugee-europe/ http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/10/the-death-of-the-most-ge... Interesting that the media continues to chide Trump and laud Sweden, if they've both done the same thing.