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Canadian reporter Doug Saunders rigorously investigated the narrative, and concluded that it “falls apart as soon as you speak to anyone knowledgeable in Sweden.” Official Swedish statistics do indeed show a high rate of rape, but that’s because Swedish law has an extremely expansive definition of what qualifies as rape under the law.
This article will show that according to crime victim surveys, the actual rate of sex crimes has been more or less unchanged in Sweden between 2005 and 2014, despite the fact that immigration has increased during the same time period. Instead, the increasing rates of reported rapes are influenced by expansion of the legal rape definition, an increase in the tendency to report rapes, police efforts to classify each individual rape as a separate crime and their tendency to classify any sex crime that could potentially be rape as rape. It will also demonstrate that reported rates between countries such as Sweden and Denmark cannot be naively compared to do the large difference in legal rape definition and police registration methods.
She also sent a graph from Sweden’s annual crime survey to prove that “sexual assault” is skyrocketing in Sweden. However, a closer examination reveals that, like Farage’s comments, the claim is misleading for a number of reasons.
"What we're hearing is a very, very extreme exaggeration based on a few isolated events, and the claim that it's related to immigration is more or less not true at all," says Jerzy Sarnecki, a criminologist at Stockholm University who has devoted his career to the study of criminality, ethnicity and age.
Claim: "There has been a major increase in the number of rapes in Sweden."
Facts: The number of reported rapes in Sweden has risen. But the definition of rape has broadened over time, which makes it difficult to compare the figures. It is also misleading to compare the figures with other countries, as many acts that are considered rape under Swedish law are not considered rape in many other countries.
For example: If a woman in Sweden reports that she has been raped by her husband every night for a year, that is counted as 365 separate offences; in most other countries this would be registered as a single offence, or would not be registered as an offence at all.
Trump’s comments led us to wonder, what is Sweden’s immigration policy? How large scale is it, and has it lead to crime increases? There are more asylum seekers in Sweden, but crime statistics seem to have been going down, not up.
This is the exception, though, not the rule. A cursory look at the data shows there is no immigrant-driven crime or terrorism wave in Sweden. There has been no “absolute surge” in rape. And Horowitz, the ultimate source of all this, is facing serious allegations of selectively editing footage of Swedish police officers to make it seem like they’re blaming crime on immigrants when they actually aren’t.
The American president is using the world’s largest megaphone to amplify a false panic about brown-skinned immigrants raping white women.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
Are you able to find some information on what actually qualifies for rape in Sweden, I ask because this has been debunked several times here. What is considered assault in say the U. S is considered rape in Sweden, the story you are spreading is not accurate.
For example: If a woman in Sweden reports that she has been raped by her husband every night for a year, that is counted as 365 separate offences; in most other countries this would be registered as a single offence, or would not be registered as an offence at all.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
originally posted by: randomtangentsrme
I am confused by your statistics. From other statistics I have seen, rape is most often committed by individuals known by the victims.
www.rainn.org...
Why is this?
It also seems to have to do with their immigrant population.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
It really surprises me that Sweden hasn't had armed vigilante groups sneaking around and taking care of these raping scum.
Would it also surprise you the op is not accurate.
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: DigginFoTroof
Are you able to find some information on what actually qualifies for rape in Sweden, I ask because this has been debunked several times here. What is considered assault in say the U. S is considered rape in Sweden, the story you are spreading is not accurate.
Wait a second, I thought you guys thought just grabbing a girl at a high school party was rape.
Now you want to define it by its true definition hmmm I wonder why?
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
It really surprises me that Sweden hasn't had armed vigilante groups sneaking around and taking care of these raping scum.
Would it also surprise you the op is not accurate.
IT would surprise me because Sweden has been in the news far too often about those violent immigrant gang banger (rapists) and also in Germany and other places.
It is happening a lot so the OP is valid enough.
originally posted by: Breakthestreak
Leftists defending an anti-leftist rape culture.
‘Intellectuals’
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
It really surprises me that Sweden hasn't had armed vigilante groups sneaking around and taking care of these raping scum.
Would it also surprise you the op is not accurate.
IT would surprise me because Sweden has been in the news far too often about those violent immigrant gang banger (rapists) and also in Germany and other places.
It is happening a lot so the OP is valid enough.