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There is a very extreme exaggeration made in some media outlets and blogs based on a few isolated events in Sweden, and claim that it’s related to refugees is more or less not true at all. As I mentioned a few days ago, it is regularly claimed by right-wing media outlets and blogs in the past few years that the more immigrants or refugees come to Europe the more likely the crime rises up. Where the immigrant population increases so do crimes, as the claim goes. Data from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” show that Sweden’s crime rate has stayed the same or has decreased contrary to false claims being peddled by right-wingers.

Sweden has been in the limelight in the past few months in the American media as a way to shore up support for Trump’s Muslim ban.

Related Article: “Sweden’s Sexual Crimes Have Gone Down Contrary To What Xenophobes Peddle”

The claim that crime has shored up due to immigration is in fact, false. We have taken our time out to show evidence against this. This evidence is directly taken from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention”, which have a database on crime going back to the 1950s for Sweden.

Persons suspected of a crime from 2005 to 2014 has decreased. This means less crime was committed in between that time. This is taken from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” in the section of “Persons suspected of offenses Number of persons suspected of offenses 2005-2014“:

The above diagram in numbers for “Persons suspected of offenses“, 2005 – 2014:

Persons suspected of offences 2005, 106,659 2006, 109,702 2007, 112,304 2008, 119,244 2009, 124,852 2010, 126,451 2011, 122,057 2012, 117,361 2013, 107,331 2014, 105,057 2015, 105, 570

We move on to the crime of Criminal damage and vandalism (evidence taken from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” in the section of “Number of persons suspected of criminal damage, 2006 – 2015“):

In Numbers for the above diagram (“Number of persons suspected of criminal damage, 2006 – 2015“):

2006, 6,993 2007, 7,434 2008, 7,734 2009, 7,768 2010, 7,420 2011, 6,822 2012, 6,477 2013, 5,418 2014, 5,383 2015, 5,347

Persons found guilty of criminal damage offences in Sweden from 2005 – 2015 (taken from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” in the section of “Number of conviction decisions of criminal damage as the primary offense, 2006 – 2015“):

In numbers for the above diagram (“Persons found guilty of criminal damage offenses“, 2006 – 2015):

2006, 3192 2007, 3,443 2008, 3,586 2009, 3,316 2010, 3,162 2011, 2,919 2012, 2,749 2013, 2,424 2014, 2,268 2015, 1,947

The crime of assault has dramatically gone down very fast in Sweden (taken from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” in the section of “Percentage exposed to assault“, 2005 – 2014):

Here is the diagram for “Persons suspected of assault” (taken from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention“):

In numbers for the above diagram on “Persons suspected of assault“, 2006 – 2015:

2006, 14,542 2007, 15153 2008, 16108 2009, 16,810 2010, 18,039 2011, 17,664 2012, 15,752 2013, 13,976 2014, 13,166 2015, 13,340

The above numbers are from 2006 – 2015 of persons who were suspected of assault. The numbers speak for themselves, the crime in this category has gone down, especially when compared to 2006 which was a lot higher.

Persons found guilty of assualt in Swedish courts where there was evidence (“The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” in the section of “Persons found guilty of offenses of assault“, 2006 – 2015):

In numbers for the above diagram of “Persons found guilty of offenses of assault”, 2006 – 2015, from Bra.se:

2006, 8,787 2007, 9,057 2008, 9,874 2009, 9,268 2010, 9,514 2011, 9,393 2012, 8,253 2013, 7,513 2014, 6,401 2015, 6,297

Robbery – Mugging went from 1% (2005) to 0.7% in 2014 (“The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” from the section of “Percentage exposed to mugging“):

Suspect cases wherein robberies have been reported. Comparing 2005 to 2015, shows that crime has actually dropped in that category (“The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” in the section of “Reported robberies“):

In numbers for the above diagram on (total) “Reported Robberies” (Suspected), 2006 – 2015:

2006, 8584 2007, 8673 2008, 8909 2009, 9570 2010, 9219 2011, 9719 2012, 9213 2013, 8361 2014, 8364 2015, 8461

The “Persons suspected of robbery” (“The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention”), 2006 – 2015:

In numbers for the above diagram on persons suspected of “all robberies”, 2006 – 2015:

2006, 1,590 2007, 1,604 2008, 1,603 2009, 1,794 2010, 1,767 2011, 1,722 2012, 1,600 2013, 1,439 2014, 1,460 2015, 1,363

Convictions – “Persons found guilty of robbery offenses” (“Number of conviction decisions of robbery (including aggravated) as the primary offence, 2006 – 2015”):

For the above diagram, the number of Convictions for Robbery offences in Sweden from 2006 – 2015:

2006, 887 2007, 850 2008, 885 2009, 1049 2010, 990 2011, 976 2012, 917 2013, 719 2014, 829 2015, 648

Murder and manslaughter (reported) by “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” (“Brottsförebyggande rådet – Brå”), in the section of “Lethal“:

Although there is a slight spike for 2015, when that number (112) is compared to 1971 – 1990, the crime of murder and manslaughter has decreased massively in that category:

Murder and manslaughter (reported) 1971, 117 1972, 114 1974, 125 1975, 122 1976, 128 1977, 131 1978, 124 1979, 170 1980, 135 1981, 146 1982, 125 1983, 121 1984, 116 1985, 126 1986, 147 1987, 134 1988, 146 1989, 150 1990, 121 2006, 91 2007, 111 2008, 82 2009, 93 2010, 91 2011, 81 2012, 68 2013, 87 2014, 87 2015, 112 (Data from 1971 – 1990 taken from, Nordic Criminal Statistics 1950–2010, Summary of a report. [8th revised edition – Kriminologiska institutionen – Stockholms universitet – Rapport 2012] by Hanns von Hofer, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä & Lars Westfelt, page 31 – 32)

There were more murder and manslaughter cases in 1971 to 1990 than 2015. This shows that the trend of lethal violence is declining.

The numbers for Murder and manslaughter (reported) in Sweden for 1971 – 1990 were taken from “Nordic Criminal Statistics 1950–2010, Summary of a report, 8th revised edition”, whereas the 2006 – 2015 statistics were taken from “The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention” (“Brottsförebyggande rådet – Brå”), in the section “Lethal“.

The extreme exaggeration of refugees being accused of increasing crime in Sweden has no basis. The numbers shown above speak for themselves. Crime has stayed the same, or it has decreased. This is the same with sexual crimes in Sweden, this has stayed the same or has decreased: “Sweden’s Sexual Crimes Have Gone Down Contrary To What Xenophobes Peddle”

Just in case someone may claim that the above facts are not true, migration, especially Muslim migration is a major problem in which crime does increase when they move into communities in Western World. Well, we will show some evidence from America. We looked up a few cities with the same population as Dearborn to compare the crime rate:

City Number of Murders 2015 Number of Rapes 2015 Dearborn MI 3 35 Sandy Springs GA 6 40 Pueblo CO 10 152 Billings MT 10 72 West Palm Beach FL 15 45

Dearborn Michigan despite having more Muslims living there than anywhere else in the US is below the average national crime rate.

In conclusion, The picture we get from the ground is that crime has stayed the same, or have decreased. The 100,000+ immigrants and refugees who have moved to Sweden from the years 2013 – 2015 have not increased crime, but rather it has decreased it. The evidence shows that the claims being made by Donald J. Trump and Nigel Farage (UKIP) in recent days have absolutely no basis and thus should be rejected by light-minded people.

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