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They've tried these things here in Sweden, for decades. It has not worked, the opposite is true. Economic opportunity sounds nice but the 'economic opportunity'
by Yetanfou 6y ago
They've tried these things here in Sweden, for decades. It has not worked, the opposite is true. Economic opportunity sounds nice but the 'economic opportunity' of robbing someone who made use of that economic opportunity and in such a way get the spoils without doing the toils keeps on winning out for some, no matter how many programs are created, how many youth centres are built, no matter how many integration programs are started. As to whether it is the lure of easy money, the false glamour of the bling-bling lifestyle as glorified by a significant part of rap and hip-hop artists, the 'rebel against the prevailing culture' attitude which permeates large areas or some other factor, something keeps on pulling increasing numbers of young boys and girls into crime.
Ineffective policing may be part of it, an alarmingly low number of violent crimes is solved here - ~10% of murders and violent crimes (the categories are combined in the report), %19% of sex crime including rape, ~6% of robberies and theft going all the way down to ~0.5% of bicycle theft cases [1,2]. The trend for the percentage of solved crimes has been going down for a very long time now so things are not improving, at all.
[1] https://www.bra.se/download/18.7d27ebd916ea64de5304de44/1585639780979/Sammanfattning_handlagda_2019.pdf https://www.bra.se/download/18.7d27ebd916ea64de5304de44/1585...
[2] https://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800010674/1371914726382/2006_4_kriminalstatistik_2005.pdf https://www.bra.se/download/18.cba82f7130f475a2f1800010674/1...
- panarky 6y agoHow does the murder rate in Sweden compare with the United States?
- Yetanfou 6y agoAt ~1.1 per 100.000 inhabitants it is lower than the USA which lies around ~4.9 per 100.000 (data from BRÅ (Sweden) and FBI (USA) for 2016). Compared to the rest of north-western Europe Sweden lies on the high side, e.g. Norway has less than half of this number, the Netherlands about half, Germany around ⅔, Denmark has a comparable murder rate. The situation in Sweden varies markedly from place to place with Malmö generally lying somewhere at the top (~3.5 murders/100.000). Where most countries in the region have seen a downward trend in the number of people subject to a crime, Sweden and Germany go against the trend with a steadily rising number [1,2], in Sweden this seems to be largely due to the rise in gang-related violence which has also led to a sharp increase in the number of shootings and gun-related homicides [4], hand-grenade attacks [4] and stabbings (on which I do not have separate data other than noticing the number of knife-related crimes in the news steadily increasing). For more info see Wikipedia:Crime in Sweden [5]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in_Sweden/0/d0dfcfedc5df97f89038ec1d6f907f238078f326.png https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sweden-crime-1976-2016-robbery-sex-murder.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sweden-crime-1976-2016-ro... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in_Sweden/0/d18beb79a323413058447f353903f0859c9e96a4.png https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in_Sweden/0/c7f34ec045ca46991ad8cb68e7e7c98fc4b0eccf.png https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/graph/png/Crime_in... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden