Oh here we go again, get the popcorn, its about to get spicy in here.
Just to ignite that fire, anyone got any statistics for crimes each year for the last 10 years?
I'm not doing a dig through their crime stats- whiie I'd probably enjoy that i'm about to take my daughter to a birthday party.
I'd want to see a minimum 20 year stat on overall crime, violent crime, homicide and firearms. I'd want it broken by region and age of perpetrator. 10 year breakdowns tend to get iffy, in my experience, as they exaggerate clustering effects.
I'd also want to know about policy change in that time, including changes in sentencing regime.
To be fair, murder conviction tends to result in incarceration, wherever you are.
The wiki page on crime in Sweden is a bit all over the place, but does have the following, specifically on murder and firearms crime:
en.m.wikipedia.org
"Sweden is the only European country where fatal shootings have risen significantly since 2000, leaping from one of the lowest rates of gun violence on the continent to one of the highest in less than a decade. In 2018, Sweden had the highest gun deaths in Europe due to increased criminal gang activities.
[5] At the 2022 election in Sweden crime topped the list of voters' most important concerns in the run-up to the elections for the first time.
[6]....
Gun violence in Sweden (Swedish:
skjutningar or
gängskjutningar) increased steeply among males aged 15 to 29 in the two decades prior to 2018, in addition to a rising trend in gun violence there was also a high rate of gun violence in Sweden compared to other countries in
Western Europe....
...
By 2021, gun violence by
crime gangs had increased tenfold since the early 1990s.
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According to a report published by academic researchers in 2017, shooting incidents with fatal outcomes are about 4 to 5 times as common in Sweden compared to neighbouring countries such as
Germany and
Norway when taking population size into account."
news.sky.com
