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Well according to this article, crime across the whole country has gone down, so who really cares if there are pockets where the violence is so bad that police
by trendia 10y ago
Well according to this article, crime across the whole country has gone down, so who really cares if there are pockets where the violence is so bad that police can't do their job?
I mean, who cares if there are 30 gernade attacks in Malmo [0] as long as overall deaths in Stockholm habe gone down by more than 30?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Sweden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_S...
- autokad 10y ago"The number of confirmed or suspected shootings was 20 per cent higher in 2014 than in 2006. The statistics also show that 17 people were killed with firearms in 2011, while the corresponding figure in 2015 was 33." does anyone else find it strange how they keep jumping around in (what feels like arbitrary) years?
- hogrammer 10y agoIt's not strange if you know why they're doing it.
- Baeocystin 10y agoLooks like cherry-picking to me.
- alkonaut 10y agoExactly. We worry about those pockets of crime/violence and the media attention is disproportionate here too. The international attention is just mind blowing seeing as nothing has changed over the last decade (these areas were shit 10 years ago too!). But all this doesn't mean the country suddenly is on the verge of collapse. Yes it's true: there are pockets where Ambulances are stoned by local kids and need police escorts. That's not a vicious rumor. It's a tiny area (few blocks) of the country though. I'm sure many countries have terrible areas. How our areas somehow turned on ambulance and firefighters is a complete mystery to me though.