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> They are heavily overrepresented in crime statistics Judging from my own anecdotal experiences as someone who "doesn't look like a German", i'm willing to ta
by BurningPenguin 4y ago
> They are heavily overrepresented in crime statistics
Judging from my own anecdotal experiences as someone who "doesn't look like a German", i'm willing to take a wild guess why: Because everything they do is under a microscope.
I got my bags searched, because i "walked suspiciously through the isles" in a store (woman thought i'm a foreigner) and i got a false accusation by a police officer who said he "knew people like me".
Also the German BKA crime statistic, as an example, shows reported crimes. It doesn't exactly show how many where actually convicted. So i guess i'm also somewhere in the stats from a few years ago.
- vimy 4y agoResearch shows that even corrected for what you’re describing the numbers still show an overrepresentation compared to their % of the population. Just an example, they were 63 % of prisoners in The Netherlands a couple years ago. Similar numbers in other Western European countries.
- BurningPenguin 4y agoCan you link some of those research papers?
- vimy 4y agoIf I had saved them but I didn't, so no. I don't feel like googling a long time to find them. You can google yourself, they were in Dutch and French.