Don't alter my posts or I will report it.

Of course, issues are polarised but facts are facts.

The left remove the middle ground by calling any criticism of immigrants or immigration 'racist'.
That is not the way you find common ground.

Well, those in social services or the Police are and were accused of racism by the 'progressive left' and Muslim communities.

People have mortgages to pay and livelihoods to protect.

You blame the services.....and I certainly do blame them for a lack of balls.....but those balls have been squeezed out of the Police by years of 'progressive' management and 'community' and 'racism' training.......a complete and utter nonsense that gave you the conditions for these events.

Anyone in the Police who isn't interested in justice regardless of race shouldn't be there anyway.....'training' is nothing but a suggestion otherwise and hence a humiliation and embarrassment.

The Police are like all public services.....the whipping boys for society's other ills. They are human beings and are no better or worse than the societies they come from....those with lofty notions otherwise are suffering with 'Mr Chips' type delusions.

But the real culprits of course are those who make the accusations everytime these questions were raised. Those who cry 'racist', 'dog whistle' and 'Islamophobia'.

That was the real reason that these crimes became so big and widespread.

You call yourself a progressive.....I regard you more as a 'Foot' communist type myself...someone whose politics is well meaning but whose vision only works if everyone in society played along...which never happens....well ok....this is like just saying 'progressive' by another name.

Anyway that's the wing of the left that is responsible for the environment that allowed this 'special' hands off treatment to become standard.

Any analysis into that situation needs to recognise the culpability of both equally.

Centralists and those in the Labour party that reject those notions of racial or class victimhood as relevant would have never allowed this environment to occur.

But there aren't many like 'John Mann' in the Labour party anymore....probably the only Labour MP I'd vote for.

Edited by Stirlingsays (05 Dec 2017 2.16pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

The figures that he seems to quote as evidence that higher immigration has lead to increases in rape in Sweden have been debunked conclusively many times. But this hasn't stopped many anti-immigration figures (including Trump) suggesting that Sweden is now a "failed state". This is patently untrue, and if this is a new book (as it would seem) then it draws into question the validity of it's content.

However the statistics are counted, by reported cases or number of convictions, it is clear that these are no greater in recent years, when immigration in greater numbers and from further afield is said to have occurred.

Swedish rape statistics[edit]
Ever since the collation of crime statistics was initiated by the Council of Europe, Sweden has had the highest number of registered rape offences in Europe by a considerable extent. In 1996, Sweden registered almost three times the average number of rape offences registered in 35 European countries. However, this does not necessarily mean rape is three times as likely to occur as in the rest of Europe, since cross-national comparisons of crime levels based on official crime statistics are problematic, due to a number of factors described below.[16][17][18][19]

There are three types of factors that determine the outcome of crime statistics: statistical factors, legal factors, and substantive factors.[16][17][18] The combined effect of these "make it safe to contend that the Swedish rape statistics constitute an 'over-reporting' relative to the European average", according to a study by Hanns von Hofer, Professor of Criminology at Stockholm University, published by The European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.[16]

Statistical factors[edit]
Unlike the majority of countries in Europe, crime data in Sweden are collected when the offence in question is first reported, at which point the classification may be unclear. In Sweden, once an act has been registered as rape, it retains this classification in the published crime statistics, even if later investigations indicate that no crime can be proven or if the offence must be given an alternative judicial classification.[16][17][18]

Sweden also applies a system of expansive offence counts. Other countries may employ more restrictive methods of counting. The Swedish police registers one offence for each person raped, and if one and the same person has been raped on a number of occasions, one offence is counted for each occasion that can be specified. For example, if a woman says she has been raped by her husband every day during a month, the Swedish police may record more than 30 cases of rape. In many other countries only a single offence would be counted in such a situation.[20][16][21][18][19]

In Sweden, crime statistics refer to the year when the offence was reported; the actual offence may have been committed long before. Swedish rape statistics can thus contain significant time-lag, which makes interpretations of annual changes difficult.[16][18]

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