Four times more crime in Oslo than New York

Aftenposten.com ^ | 07 Mar 2008

[rdl6989]

The crime rate in Oslo has been growing at an alarming rate and recent statistics show the Norwegian capital had 20 percent more robberies last year than in 2006.

While crime in the rest of Norway has been going down, it has been quite another situation in Oslo, where personal and automobile thefts increased markedly last year.

There were 10,600 crimes reported in public places in 2007, up from 8,000 a year earlier, writes Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet.

Oslo had the highest rate per person in Scandinavia in terms of reported crimes, with 90 reported crimes per 1,000.

Copenhagen had 50 crimes reported per 1,000 and Stockholm had 79.

[Anti-Bubba182]

“..The Oslo police are blaming the increase on an influx of East Europeans, and Minister of Justice Knut Storberget is reportedly partly in agreement...”

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Anybody there have guns for self defense? <./ rhetorical question>

[soupcon]

I go into NYC almost every weekend. It’s safe, it’s comfortable, the people are very friendly and it’s fun, fun, fun. Quit it already with comparing sh*tholes to Manhattan.

[sheenster 95]

I find it hard to believe a city with more crime than NY

[heartwood]

A lot of crime in NYC may not be reported. Those Norwegians may believe in their gov’t enough to report everything. 35 years ago Scandinavia was the safest cleanest place imaginable.

[Spktyr]

BMFL

[rdl6989]

35 years ago Scandinavia was the safest cleanest place imaginable.

Socialism is a disaster wherever it exists.

[soupcon]

I find it hard to believe a city with more crime than NY
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I could almost state with certainty that your town has a higher crime rate per capita than NYC.
Give me the name of your city and state and I’ll crunch the numbers for you.

[rdl6989]

Indianapolis

[Paleo Conservative]

By people whose names can’t be mentioned?

[rfp1234]

If Norway weren’t swimming in oil, the flaws in its socialist nanny-state system would have been exposed decades ago.

[heartwood]

Sure, but what does a kid know about socialism?

[toldyou]

I’m frequently there by myself and I feel safe, too. I love NYC!

[Straight Vermonter]

Not even close Indy is a hell hole compared to NY

Crime/100K	Indy	NYC
Murder	17.5	7.3
Rape	68.5	13.1
Robbery	405.6	287.9
Assault	468.3	329.6
Aut Theft	1115.6	195.2

[End Times Sentinel]

Damn Norgies.

[quantim]

Maybe like here in the Detroit area where they are stealing salt from storage compounds.

This extremely hard world-wide winter and all, folks are desperate. Algore, bite these crimes.

[rdl6989]

Ah yes, moose-limb rage boy is among my all time FR favorites.

[Polybius]

I go into NYC almost every weekend. It’s safe, it’s comfortable, the people are very friendly and it’s fun, fun, fun. Quit it already with comparing sh*tholes to Manhattan.

I first went to Manhattan in 1977. It was a sh*hole and I avoided it ever since.

Until this summer.

After hearing so often that it had been cleaned up, I took a chance and took my daughter there for 10 days last summer.

It’s safe, it’s comfortable, the people are very friendly and it’s fun, fun, fun. :-)

[modican]

Four times more crime in Oslo than New York

Guess why: Same old story, all over the western world:

....Immigrants account for 92.5 percent of the capital's total population growth over the past ten years. Immigrants from western nations make up seven percent, while non-western immigrants are nearly 86 percent of the growth.....



..Or it's the expensive Beer.