Is it? The statistics you see are probably unsound. Here’s why.
What’s actually happening is a pipeline: P(crime_occurring) * P(crime_being_reported) * P(crime_being_investigated) * P(charges brought) * P(verdict_being_reached) * P(sentencing).
There’s inherent bias in the reporting, in the likelihood of a crime of a given severity being investigated, the severity of charges being brought for a given crime, the likehilood of conviction based on a particular set of facts, and the severity of sentencing once a conviction has been made. All of this has been conclusively shown in a large number of different countries. There’s no reason to believe Sweden would be different. Based on some of the ignorant shit I’ve personally heard Swedes say, at least anecdotally, it is not a country free of prejudice.
And the statistics that are actually easy to accurately measure are not at the first step in that long pipeline.
Even worse, tthe data served up to the public via the media is often manipulated to support a given political point of view. And sometimes it’s more than manipulation, it’s outright lying. Coincidentally, some of those lies are identical to the lies being told by the far-right parties.
Is it? The statistics you see are probably unsound. Here’s why.
What’s actually happening is a pipeline: P(crime_occurring) * P(crime_being_reported) * P(crime_being_investigated) * P(charges brought) * P(verdict_being_reached) * P(sentencing).
There’s inherent bias in the reporting, in the likelihood of a crime of a given severity being investigated, the severity of charges being brought for a given crime, the likehilood of conviction based on a particular set of facts, and the severity of sentencing once a conviction has been made. All of this has been conclusively shown in a large number of different countries. There’s no reason to believe Sweden would be different. Based on some of the ignorant shit I’ve personally heard Swedes say, at least anecdotally, it is not a country free of prejudice.
And the statistics that are actually easy to accurately measure are not at the first step in that long pipeline.
Even worse, tthe data served up to the public via the media is often manipulated to support a given political point of view. And sometimes it’s more than manipulation, it’s outright lying. Coincidentally, some of those lies are identical to the lies being told by the far-right parties.