Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement

Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement by yummyfajitas on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @05:18PM (#10976638)

There are many hypothesis. Too bad the data which could allow us to evaluate them (namely the # of crimes broken down by ethnicity) is deliberately hidden. That's why I'm suspicious of the establishment's claims, and why I expect many Europeans are as well.

I don't find a surge in crime relating to changing demographics implausible. In the US we have widely varying (read: 8-10x) crime rates between ethnic groups, so if our ethnic composition changed we could get significantly more crime as a result. Perhaps Sweden has similar effects. Or perhaps not; but if the data proved otherwise, why would the establishment hide it?

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Re:Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement by gjm11 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @08:24PM (#10977576)

Even if those nasty scary brown-skinned immigrants have 10x the crime rate of the rest of the population and make up 20% of the population, that couldn't do more than about double the crime rate.

(Muslim immigrants do not in fact make up 20% of the population of Sweden.)

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