Ok third try's the charm? Loads forum and thread ok, then I type some, hit reply- and the entire domain is stone dead. Omen, of course.
One problem here is that more is happening than just immigration. First off we've got a change of 18 years.
Assault: 1950: 7k, 1968: 17k (+140%)
1970: 18k, 1988: 37k (+100%)
1990: 40k, 2008: 84k (+110%)
I suspect the increase in assault over this time of higher immigration is totally in line with most 18 year periods.
Not quite, although there have been sharp increases for this type of crime before:
Assault: 2000- 58846: 2008- 84566 = 44% increase,
1969- 17803 :1977- 25251 = 42%
1954- 8605 :1968-8988 = 4.5%.
Last year, around 20 recent-immigrant youths got into a verbal argument with a Swedish girl in Södertälje . They called her 'Swedish whore', she called them 'blackheads' (both popular derogatory terms here), they beat her unconscious. Five other guys saw what was happening ("They were lifting her head and kicking it") and tried to help; they got noses and other things broken before police arrived. The mainstream media reported it, but most didn't mention the gang's ethnicity of course. Recently it was announced that the prosecution had dropped the case due to lack of evidence. "
The prosecutor's comment:
"The problem is that it was dark and chaotic and lots of people on the scene. Additionally there were no cameras, and especially there were no witnesses. Witnesses are a rare thing in Södertälje, especially among youths"
I tried to find an English translation but couldn't - I can only guarantee that I haven't distorted the reported facts.
'Romario' (immigrant) was knifed to death in the south of Sweden a year ago or so by other immigrants; this case has essentially been dropped too because the three that virtually everyone know are guilty blame each other / their memories and not one of the witnesses will witness. They fear internal retribution more than Swedish courts.
As for the sexual crimes, it's a stretch to try and pin that increase just on immigrants. First off, the council even says the increase over that time frame is partly due to an increase in reporting. Second, for rape statistics you're failing to correct for the change in law in 2005 that crimes that were previously sexual misdemeanors being reclassified as rapes. Third, it has also been suggested that this increase could be due to the more recent trend towards a more active night life, with parties in private homes, and with the advent of online "dating" sites that enable contacts, often for purely sexual reasons. Blaming the internet is just as logical as blaming immigrants here.
Is half a pin still a pin?
Non-job immigration started en-masse in the 1980s ->
Sexual offences reported:
1952: 2756
1980: 3096
1982: 3904
2008: 14342
Brå writes : "Over the past ten years, the number of reported sex crimes has increased by 58 percent. This increase is probably due to a combination of an increase the tendency to report the crimes and an increase in actual criminality. At the same time, there is a large hidden number as regards crimes of a sexual nature"
- > Of course they can't list immigration as a cause as such statistics are not kept (public, anyway), but since poverty and segregation is common in areas where (recent) immigrants are a majority, in part because of discrimination, and since these areas tend to attract even more immigrants than other places, amplifying the problems, it is logical to conclude that recent mass-immigration is a factor. Especially since these areas have higher-than-average amounts of crimes reported, as already shown an example of. How big of a factor though, neither of us can know for certain.
In regards to the change in the law in 2005- numbers didn't jump dramatically right after, so how big of an impact on statistics did this have, would you happen to know? The change meant that the requirement of violence or force was dropped from the rape classification if the victim was <15 years old or in a state incapable of defence.
As for Iraqi and Iranian refugees, here are some random figures. "Until 2006, only 202 Iraqis had come to the US. . . In the past three years, 25,659 Iraqi refugees have
arrived." One
random link places the number at around 80k Iranian refugees in the US, with probably 300k-400k Iranian Americans in the US.
I wasn't aware of that. The 'Christian Science Monitor' though...?
Also from that article " It hasn't been smooth sailing for the thousands of Iraqi refugees entering America's resettlement program. Only 11 percent are finding work this year, compared with 80 percent two years ago. Many are frustrated as benefits dwindle, cash runs out, and eviction notices pile up."
As for Iranians, your first number appears reasonable, even if the link was random indeed.
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http://www.irainc.org/iranref/statistics.php. I can't verify your 'total number of Iranian-Americans" either. (I don't even know the definition? Call a youth "Iranian-Swede" here and you'd be called racist and worse

It is a safe guess to say that Sweden has a lot more / total pop though, whatever that means.
I'm not saying immigrants are bad, I'm saying recent immigration policies are bad. Which would make some spit and say 'that's the same thing you racist' but I can't help that.