Sweden: Rape Capital of the West

Gatestone Institute ^ | February 14, 2015 | Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard

[george76]

Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 700%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape countries, surpassed only by Lesotho in Southern Africa.

Significantly, the report does not touch on the background of the rapists. One should, however, keep in mind that in statistics, second-generation immigrants are counted as Swedes.

In an astounding number of cases, the Swedish courts have demonstrated sympathy for the rapists, and have acquitted suspects who have claimed that the girl wanted to have sex with six, seven or eight men.

The internet radio station Granskning Sverige called the mainstream newspapers Aftonposten and Expressen to ask why they had described the perpetrators as "Swedish men" when they actually were Somalis without Swedish citizenship. They were hugely offended when asked if they felt any responsibility to warn Swedish women to stay away from certain men. One journalist asked why that should be their responsibility.

In 1975, the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the former homogeneous Sweden into a multicultural country. Forty years later the dramatic consequences of this experiment emerge: violent crime has increased by 300%.

If one looks at the number of rapes, however, the increase is even worse. In 1975, 421 rapes were reported to the police; in 2014, it was 6,620. That is an increase of 1,472%.

Sweden is now number two on the global list of rape countries. According to a survey from 2010, Sweden, with 53.2 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants, is surpassed only by tiny Lesotho in Southern Africa, with 91.6 rapes per 100,000 inhabitants.

[the scotsman]

The rates are higher because of the collation of figures. In black and white, the US is ‘safer’ than Sweden, Austria, Finland......

There are a large number of UK violent crimes that skew the figures. Offences which aren’t classed as violent in the US or other countries.

Assaults in the US are highest against the person. In the UK its most violent offences are against property (burglary). The UK murder rate per head (per 100000) is a quarter of the US, its gun crime per head is one sixteenth, its gun murder even less.

The UK has a population of around 62 million people, yet has less than 800 murders a year. Serial killing is almost unknown (unlike the US, where the FBI itself says that at least 50 serial killers are working at any one time, sompe experts think it could be 50-200), child murder is very low (120 a year, less than 10 murdered by strangers).

[21twelve]

http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checking-ben-swann-is-the-uk-really-5-times-more-violent-than-the-us/

Good point about the different way to classify crimes among the nations. (Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics).

Although the above link discredits one of the statistics of violent crime per 100,000 in GB as 2,000+ comapared to the US at 466; they still have an estimate of 776 in GB trying to compare apples to apples.

But something to keep in mind when just looking at the data, that countries call certain crimes a different thing. I saw were in India, a man sexually assaulting his wife is not a crime. At least some blogger said so!;)