ABC news paints a complicated picture:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/presi...ry?id=45610077
Crime certainly isn't surging. It's gone up but in the main areas that have taken migrants it's gone down. However murder has increased across Sweden but at the same time we're dealing with small numbers so an increase of 20 might not be statistically relevant......
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Sweden has 15 suburbs with high crime rates, he said, but the recent influx of refugees doesn’t explain the problem. Rinkeby is one of these 15 areas.
“In 2015 a big number of refugees came to Sweden, and these were problem areas before that,” he told ABC News.
In fact, the number of reported crimes in those 15 areas decreased from 2014 to 2015. In 2015, 19,092 crimes were reported in those 15 areas — a decline from 19,576 in 2014. In 2012 the number of reported crimes in these areas was over 20,200, according to data from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. Numbers for 2016 are not yet available.
Last year 112,645 violent crimes were reported in the country — an increase from 108,739 in 2015, 108,071 in 2014 and 104,738 in 2013, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. Those totals include attempted murder, muggings and rape but not other types of sexual assault and murder, the council said.
In 2015 the number of murders went up to 112, from 87 the previous year. The data for 2016 have not yet been compiled, according to the council. But what these numbers don’t show is how many of the crimes were committed by asylum seekers. The statistics are based on police reports, and the reports don’t mention the suspected perpetrators’ ethnicity, citizenship or refugee status, according to the council.
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Looking at those numbers I would say we're not really looking at mass problems here. Crime has gone up but it's not surging and there isn't evidence that the increase in crime is coming from areas with refugees.