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SamuelRSmith on 18 January 2018
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Flilix said:
SamuelRSmith said:

I understand that Malmo is only 3.8 murders per 100k. But it was up over 20% YoY. You have the "everything is a-okay" folks telling us that it's very low, shouldn't worry, look over there to Chicago, anybody who thinks there's a problem should sober up and shut up. Unfortunately, these are the same folks which have been caught in a number of cases suppressing major news stories that weren't favourable, and so the trust in those folks are at an all time low.

Data across the board shows that crime is low, but concentrated, and rising fast.

Malmö has 318 thousand inhabitants. That means that there are about 12 murders a year. So if the murder rate is 20% up, that just means there are 2 more guys killed (probably by coincidence).

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/WP0KG/the-crime-situation-in-sweden-compared-to-the-us-in-4-charts

'Total crimes against life and health' have stayed pretty much the same in Sweden for the past few years.

My mistake, the murder rate across Sweden went up 20% YoY http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6390644 . This would obviously be concentrated into regions.

https://www.bra.se/brott-och-statistik/statistiska-undersokningar/nationella-trygghetsundersokningen.html shows that Swedish people have been increasingly concerned about crime since 2014. And the link off the page says that it's up again for 2017.