Facts about migration and crime in Sweden

Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by jl6 on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:00AM (#13723197)

I understand that one motivation behind not providing crime breakdowns by ethnicity is to avoid providing information that might be used without context to justify hate.

But it is also a little racist to try to hide the problem, as if criminality is inherent to the ethnicity and cannot be solved, so may as well be ignored.

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Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by qofcourse on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:08AM (#13723276)

Quite true - and the level of Orwellian thought-control that bureaucrats are engaging in, in order to hide facts because it might "justify hate" - is much more terrifying than the hate itself.

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Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by DarkKomunalec on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:42AM (#13723527)

But pointing out the positive statistics of immigrants (e.g. https://hbr.org/2016/10/immigrants-play-a-disproportionate-r... ) - is okay?

Ignore the data supporting one side of the debate, and of course the other side will seem more convincing.

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Re:Facts about migration and crime in Sweden by pavlov on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:25AM (#13723401)

Collecting data about ethnicity is always problematic because the definitions are fundamentally fluid.

Finnish people were considered Asian in some American states in the early 20th century. Should they be included in crime statistics with Chinese?

Also, if police are required to collect this data, who else is? Should you be able to look up the registered ethnicity of a person similar to how anyone can look up tax returns in Sweden (and other Nordic countries)? If not, why not?

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