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>> According to the most recent study, people from foreign backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to be suspected of crimes than people born in Sweden to Swedish

>> According to the most recent study, people from foreign backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to be suspected of crimes than people born in Sweden to Swedish-born parents. What do you imply exactly? So Swedish police are more likely to suspect you if you are a foreigner, how unexpected.

qofcourse 10y ago
It's worse than that. People from foreign backgrounds are probably committing far more crimes than this suggests - but because the police are so politically correct, they UNDERREPORT crimes by foreigners.
- egeozcan 10y ago
  You've been bombarding this discussion with your alternate reality. Do you have any references?
  - gd1 10y ago
    Rotherham
- brorfred 10y ago
  Have you ever met the Swedish police? Does the term "baseball gang" say anything?
leereeves 10y ago
I think you made just the leap the authors intended you to. I wish the authors had included a link to that study so we could see what "suspected of" means exactly.
- literallycancer 10y ago
  I don't need a link to a study to tell you what it means. The meaning is exactly the same as in normal speech, too bad for you since you'll have to do even more mental gymnastics to resolve your cognitive dissonance. It means someone was suspected (e.g. were at any time a suspect during the investigation), regardless of whether they actually committed anything or not.
  - leereeves 10y ago
    You don't want to read the actual study before jumping to conclusions? Ok then.
yAnonymous 10y ago
In Germany the percentage of foreign suspects about matches with the percentage of convictions, so statistically speaking the suspicions are correct. I'd be surprised if it was different in Sweden, or any other country with similar problems, as it's easy to distinguish the looks of most immigrants and the local population.
- germanier 10y ago
  > as it's easy to distinguish the looks of most immigrants It's not. To take Germany as an example, the largest group of foreigners are Turks, followed by Poles and Italians. More than half of foreigner's in Germany are from European countries. On the other hand, many people from that groups are now German citizens and have grand-children that are in Germany in the third generation. A large number of German citizens have foreign born parents and many foreigners are born in Germany. If you can reliably distinguish between immigrants and the rest of the population by the looks your skills would be in high demand. See https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/MigrationIntegration/MigrationIntegration.html https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Populat... for detailed statistics.

qofcourse 10y ago

It's worse than that. People from foreign backgrounds are probably committing far more crimes than this suggests - but because the police are so politically correct, they UNDERREPORT crimes by foreigners.

egeozcan 10y ago
You've been bombarding this discussion with your alternate reality. Do you have any references?
- gd1 10y ago
  Rotherham
brorfred 10y ago
Have you ever met the Swedish police? Does the term "baseball gang" say anything?

leereeves 10y ago

I think you made just the leap the authors intended you to. I wish the authors had included a link to that study so we could see what "suspected of" means exactly.

literallycancer 10y ago
I don't need a link to a study to tell you what it means. The meaning is exactly the same as in normal speech, too bad for you since you'll have to do even more mental gymnastics to resolve your cognitive dissonance. It means someone was suspected (e.g. were at any time a suspect during the investigation), regardless of whether they actually committed anything or not.
- leereeves 10y ago
  You don't want to read the actual study before jumping to conclusions? Ok then.

yAnonymous 10y ago

In Germany the percentage of foreign suspects about matches with the percentage of convictions, so statistically speaking the suspicions are correct. I'd be surprised if it was different in Sweden, or any other country with similar problems, as it's easy to distinguish the looks of most immigrants and the local population.

germanier 10y ago
> as it's easy to distinguish the looks of most immigrants It's not. To take Germany as an example, the largest group of foreigners are Turks, followed by Poles and Italians. More than half of foreigner's in Germany are from European countries. On the other hand, many people from that groups are now German citizens and have grand-children that are in Germany in the third generation. A large number of German citizens have foreign born parents and many foreigners are born in Germany. If you can reliably distinguish between immigrants and the rest of the population by the looks your skills would be in high demand. See https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Population/MigrationIntegration/MigrationIntegration.html https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Populat... for detailed statistics.