Comment by johansch | Hacker News Reader

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So you support having BRÅ redo their stats on crimes per origin in light of the new immigration since 2005?

For any non-swedes who may be interested enough to follow this: BRÅ is the "Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention". The are tasked with doing research on crime and how to prevent it.

Meanwhile, this particular authorithy actually published new stats recently. For example:

Over the past three years 1.7% of the population of Sweden reported they were subject to sexual crimes. During the period 2005-2012 this number was relatively stable at around 1%. So we are talking about a 70% increase in just a few years.

The most obvious thing that changed during these three years? Massive, historically unsurpassed immigration levels from Africa/The Middle-East.

https://www.bra.se/bra/brott-och-statistik/valdtakt-och-sexu...

(The graph there is quite telling.)

So now correlation is causation?

I'm definitely in favour of more high-quality research into the causes of crime and its relationship with immigration, social factors, gender etc. Again, we need facts, which can only be won by serious, honest research, not glib generalizations.

a) Yeah, I would say that it is highly likely that the incredibly dramatic demographic change the past three years has been quite relevant for the 70% increase in sex crime victimization during the same three years. Of course, if your're an academic type person you can chose to ignore what you're seeing with your own eyes. Just carry on.

Bonus link: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep39589

b) How about you actually stating that BRÅ should re-do their crime stats based on immigration status etc? Not that it matters one bit in the grand scale of things, but since you seem to be escaping the issue I would like to see you say yes or no.

Yes. Of course, they should do it properly and not stop at that but look at all plausible factors. For example, there's a very common chromosomal abberration that leads to a ten-fold increase in the violent crime rate (or more), yet this is hardly discussed at all.

Are you okay? You're talking to yourself.

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