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For this reason it’s important we start using cash again, and not attend shops and restaurants that don’t take it. Nowadays we have brutal armed robberies like

For this reason it’s important we start using cash again, and not attend shops and restaurants that don’t take it. Nowadays we have brutal armed robberies like never before, but using non-traceable currency is important for freedom.

etrautmann 6y ago
Source? I would have thought “brutal armed robberies” were way down from historical highs.
- bjeds 6y ago
  Here is one source about robberies being roughly twice (maybe 1.7-1.9x) as common in 2019 as the period 2006-2015: The graph says "Percentage (of population being) victim of robbery": https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/ran.html https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/r...
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  I have a theory that as the intelligence of solutions preventing crime increases some forms of criminality will become more violent in order to defeat the crime prevention - for example car jacking as a way to get cars because breaking into cars became too difficult for common criminals due to alarms etc.
- jeofken 6y ago
  Sweden has dramatically changed in the last 20 years and I would guess most here have the old homogenous Sweden in mind. Like many other countries have had before (such as USA), we are now living with brutal gangs grouped together per ethnicity, except for native Swedes, Finns, and Sami people though. The worst of the new wave of robberies we call “humiliation robberies” (förnedringsrån, you can search with Google Translate) where the victim (mostly natives) is not only forced to withdraw from the ATM, but tortured, forced to undress, pissed upon, forced to say humiliating things, or raped (also men and boys). The last of many examples to make headlines, where the perpetrators were found, was two young guys in Solna who were forced onto a church yard at night where they were beaten, raped, tortured and robbed. Mainstream media in Sweden does not publish details so I’ll link you one mainstream media article, and one independent blogger - again you might want to use a translation service to read it https://petterssonsblogg.se/2021/01/07/ali-och-amin-doms-for-tortyr-och-valdtakt-pa-kyrkogard/ https://petterssonsblogg.se/2021/01/07/ali-och-amin-doms-for... https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/solna-man-misshandlade-pa-kyrkogard/ https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/solna-man-misshandlade-pa-k... Young Swedes today know where not to walk after dark in a way their parents never thought about. If my personal account, the example, or a search into “förnedringsrån” isn’t what you’re looking for, please let me know! You are absolutely right to want to verify claims.
nly 6y ago
Plenty of small businesses in London are still cash only. My local hairdresser for example.
- jeofken 6y ago
  Cherish it!

etrautmann 6y ago

Source? I would have thought “brutal armed robberies” were way down from historical highs.

bjeds 6y ago
Here is one source about robberies being roughly twice (maybe 1.7-1.9x) as common in 2019 as the period 2006-2015: The graph says "Percentage (of population being) victim of robbery": https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/ran.html https://www.bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/r...
bryanrasmussen 6y ago
I have a theory that as the intelligence of solutions preventing crime increases some forms of criminality will become more violent in order to defeat the crime prevention - for example car jacking as a way to get cars because breaking into cars became too difficult for common criminals due to alarms etc.
jeofken 6y ago
Sweden has dramatically changed in the last 20 years and I would guess most here have the old homogenous Sweden in mind. Like many other countries have had before (such as USA), we are now living with brutal gangs grouped together per ethnicity, except for native Swedes, Finns, and Sami people though. The worst of the new wave of robberies we call “humiliation robberies” (förnedringsrån, you can search with Google Translate) where the victim (mostly natives) is not only forced to withdraw from the ATM, but tortured, forced to undress, pissed upon, forced to say humiliating things, or raped (also men and boys). The last of many examples to make headlines, where the perpetrators were found, was two young guys in Solna who were forced onto a church yard at night where they were beaten, raped, tortured and robbed. Mainstream media in Sweden does not publish details so I’ll link you one mainstream media article, and one independent blogger - again you might want to use a translation service to read it https://petterssonsblogg.se/2021/01/07/ali-och-amin-doms-for-tortyr-och-valdtakt-pa-kyrkogard/ https://petterssonsblogg.se/2021/01/07/ali-och-amin-doms-for... https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/solna-man-misshandlade-pa-kyrkogard/ https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/solna-man-misshandlade-pa-k... Young Swedes today know where not to walk after dark in a way their parents never thought about. If my personal account, the example, or a search into “förnedringsrån” isn’t what you’re looking for, please let me know! You are absolutely right to want to verify claims.

nly 6y ago

Plenty of small businesses in London are still cash only. My local hairdresser for example.

jeofken 6y ago
Cherish it!