Huge riots in Stockholm for the past 5 days and it seems a bit under-reported

In regards to Sweden being the rape capital, it's more of a misunderstanding of the stats. Sweden takes sexual violence far more seriously than the likes of South Africa.

But that is a misconception, according to Klara Selin, a sociologist at the National Council for Crime Prevention in Stockholm. She says you cannot compare countries' records, because police procedures and legal definitions vary widely.

"In Sweden there has been this ambition explicitly to record every case of sexual violence separately, to make it visible in the statistics," she says.

"So, for instance, when a woman comes to the police and she says my husband or my fiance raped me almost every day during the last year, the police have to record each of these events, which might be more than 300 events. In many other countries it would just be one record - one victim, one type of crime, one record."

The thing is, the number of reported rapes has been going up in Sweden - it's almost trebled in just the last seven years. In 2003, about 2,200 offences were reported by the police, compared to nearly 6,000 in 2010...
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But Klara Selin says the statistics don't represent a major crime epidemic, rather a shift in attitudes. The public debate about this sort of crime in Sweden over the past two decades has had the effect of raising awareness, she says, and encouraging women to go to the police if they have been attacked.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19592372

So really the crimes were occuring but now they're getting the reports that people were unwilling to give. They are also classifying each incident as a separate crime so it raises the stats. There's also events that aren't reported as sexual assault in many countries but are in Sweden. These studies in general are considered to be inaccurate and ineffective ways of ranking countries. There's a significantly different attitude towards crime in Sweden in contrast to South Africa. By the way, South Africa is still the capital. But I guess you'd prefer to blame it on the immigrants with no real foundation to it.

Riots occur in countries, Britain has tons of them and those responsible were white British people. Student protests gone wrong and looting of London the year before last. But alienating a demographic is not going to resolve the issue of rioting and will likely drive those who are subjected to xenophobia to act aggressively.

Strange how you didn't point to the fact that they started in socially deprived areas because this is a far greater factor than the fact that it was immigrants especially since Swedes are participating too.

I do find it sort of fitting that a family member of the man whose death sparked the riots has spoken out against them.

The family of the 69-year-old man who was shot dead by police has urged rioters to stop. It’s “the wrong way to react,” said Risto Kajanto, the dead man’s brother in-law, according to Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet. “We must discuss with the police and get along - violence only feeds more violence.”
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/police-seek-reinforcements-to-help-end-stockholm-riots-1.1405309

This has been fairly widely reported btw.

Your reporting of it is more like a pitch fork wielding crowd that wants to blame the outsiders for everything. It's merely taking advantage of the event. Ye never make a big deal about it if it's just the locals that are rioting....

Gatling wrote: »

The reason I asked a lot of council housing list's and estates in some areas go from 20%- 40+% made of non nationals

Yes I'd believe that figure for some areas, but as a non-colonizer country, I'd assume any proportion of non-irish nationals on Irish housing lists to be reasonably diverse.

What we'd really want to avoid is the conglomeration of a large, disaffected and homogenous grouping in any one area... be they Irish or anything else. That's why housing strategies which place council tenants amongst private householders should be encouraged at the expense of the council estates you mention.

I'm not quite advocating "multiculturalism", but the more racial and class diversity we can assign to local districts, the better for social harmony.

Immigrant, non-whites causing trouble in a civilized country? Well I never...

Nodin wrote: »

Thanks. A lot of the time I have to go through a long boring processn trying to work out where somebody is coming from.

I never have to worry about whether Nodin comes into these kinda threads.


Anyway, yes, riots in Sweden.

I blame whitey. As I do for riots in India, Pakistan and China. .

Gatling wrote: »

Actually they've been cutting welfare for the last few years and who's entitled to said welfare

I bet they didn't pick on the whites. Racists.