Posted on 01/18/2018 10:37:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
The number of rapes reported to authorities in Sweden increased by 10 percent in 2017, according to new preliminary figures from the country's National Council on Crime Prevention (Brå). The figures, released on Thursday, include all incidents reported as crimes with the police, prosecution authority and other authorities tasked with investigating crimes in Sweden. They include incidents later shown not to be crimes following investigations.
In total, 1.51 million crimes were reported in Sweden during 2017, a slight increase (4,010 more) on 2016.
The category with the biggest increase was crimes against the person, with the individual crimes of fleeing the scene of a traffic accident, computer fraud, possession of narcotics and infliction of damages (other than graffiti) growing most.
A total of 287,000 crimes against the person were reported last year – four percent more than 2016. According to Brå that is in part because of the creation of a new crime category, "unlawful use of identity" (olovlig identitetsanvänding) of which 27,600 instances were reported.
The number of sex crimes reported in Sweden increased by eight percent (1,600 reports), with the number of reported rapes in particular increasing by 10 percent – 663 reported rapes more than 2016 and reaching a total of 7,230.
Reported instances of sexual molestation also grew by three percent (326 reports) to 10,800 and reported instances of sexual coercion and exploitation by seven percent (1,330 reports).
Mid Sweden University Criminologist Teresa Silva told The Local that the statistics should be treated with care.
"We always have to be careful with analyzing reported crimes. We don't know from the reported crime statistics whether the crime has actually occurred more, or if it's just that people report it more. They are always tricky, you have to think beyond the statistics themselves. Years ago these kind of crimes, sex crimes, were not spoken about and had stigma attached to them."
"So what do these stats not tell us? Detailed characteristics of the victims for example – we don't know their demographic and social profile, or if more immigrants are reporting these crimes after becoming more integrated in Sweden and aware that they can report them," she added.
In Sweden’s three biggest cities the picture is mixed. In Stockholm the number of reported rapes increased by 177 to 782 reports, while in Malmö (down six to 209) and Gothenburg (down eight to 369) they decreased.
A 10 percent overall increase in reported rapes over one year should be cause for further investigation rather than something to draw conclusions from in itself, criminologist Silva argues.
"If there's a ten percent increase in a year, something has occurred, but what is it? We don’t know without looking over more years. Will it stabilize? Is it continually increasing?"
According to Brå, the number of reported rapes in Sweden increased by 34 percent in the decade between 2008 and 2017. Between 2005 and 2011 a steady increase was in part due to changes in sexual assault laws meaning more crimes previously classified as sexual exploitation were classified as rape. After 2011 the rate varied between a low of 5,830 and a high of 6,700 in 2014 before reaching 7,230 in 2017.
"The reported crime figures should mainly be used as an alert towards something – they should make you ask what may be happening, then further research it. So with reported sex crimes increasing, the profiles of the people reporting the sexual assaults should be looked at, as well as the profiles of the perpetrators," Silva said.
"The figures should point us in the direction of further investigations on that type of crime, then at the end of the investigation you draw conclusions on what is or isn’t happening."
Earlier in January the Swedish government asked Brå to research why the number of reported rapes in the country is increasing, and explore whether the change is situational, to do with certain groups of perpetrators, or linked to a rise in certain types of sex crimes.
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Opposition politicians from the Moderates and Centre Party responded to the new preliminary figures by calling for harsher punishment for those convicted of rape. Social Democrat Justice Minister Morgan Johansson told tabloid Expressen he believes there is cross-party consensus on planned government measures including reforming laws in the area and tougher sentencing.
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At the other end of the spectrum in Brå's new preliminary statistics for 2017, the biggest decrease in reported crimes was in the theft and infliction of damage categories.
Assault also saw a decrease of five percent, down to 83,400 reported instances. Assault on men over the age of 18 dropped by nine percent, and assault on women in the same age bracket dropped by four percent.
Islam is a war plan.
They left off a zerooooooos
>> “If there’s a ten percent increase in a year, something has occurred, but what is it? We don’t know without looking over more years. Will it stabilize? Is it continually increasing?”
Liar.
Today, we just skip all that nasty war stuff.
It's much more convenient and a lot less messy that way.
Letting savages into civilized countries results in savages acting like savages inside those countries.
Every single generation of European people understood that, and acted accordingly, until the 20th century.
It is time to turn back the poison tide that is flooding The West.
Subhuman muzzie filth.
Don’t worry, somehow the Swedish government will blame it on the Jews.
Blaming anything on the Moslems is “verboten”, esp. in Malmo.
Right, got it. Anything, ANYTHING but finding that male muzzie invaders are doing all that raping.
Long ago there was a moron joke popular in grade school.
Two morons each had a horse, but they couldn't tell the horses apart. They tried cropping the mane of one. That worked until the mane grew back. Then they tried cropping one horse's tail. Wonderful... but the tail grew back as well. Confused again the morons pondered for days until one said, "I know! We'll measure them, surely one must be a bit taller than the other." Off to the stables with a tape measure. And sure enough the results provided a brilliant solution, the black horse was taller than the white horse!
An old joke that has become a parable for western Europe.
The number of rapes by moslem illegal aliens which are REPORTED...
its against the law in Europe to say anything “negative” about moslemns...
the poor victim could end up in jail while the rapist goes free and gets lots of goodies...
Only 10%? Not as good as the Dow did in Trump’s first year
Seems to me the Swedes are accepting this as a necessary consequence of their multiculturalism policy. They have lost all self-esteem, and actually want this as a way of purging the sin of once being Christian.
The rape of Swedish women is racial Darwinism. That is, by raping the women, the attacking Islamic scum are changing the gene pool and creating a hybrid population. This evolutionary process is natural selection in action
The German population was altered by the rape of the militant German women by the crude Slavic Russians. The occupying Brits and Americans also contributed genes to water down the militant German race.
Angela Merkel is the second generational result of the genetic dilution
To stop the Darwinian rape, the rapist and all that look like them must be slaughtered. To preserve Sweden, the Islamic invaders must be slaughtered along with all their women and children
This is the war American women can look forward to; when I see how rowdy Hispanics treat American, I can just imagine how the Muslims will...
It IS multi-culturalism; Swedish society is going to absorb part of Muslim culture - the part where women don’t dare show themselves in public unless escorted by a male relative.
They are there already!
Maybe more women are asking for it by the way they dress to entice men #NewLibSpeak
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