So...good old Sweden, the land of pillage, rape and plunder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_...den#Sex_crimes
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The high number of reported rapes in Sweden can partly be explained by differing legal systems, offence definitions, terminological variations, recording practices and statistical conventions, making any cross-national comparison on rape statistics difficult.
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I think we had a similar discussion about the UK and US in regards to how violent crime is reported, and what constituted violent crime a while ago in one of the gun control threads.
But to clarify, Swedish police record every single incidence of sexual assault as an individual case, so in a case of domestic violence, every incidence of sexual assault gets its own seperate recording, which has lead to an artificial inflation of sexual assault figures which started in 2005, six years before the 2011 refugee influx.
See the sharp jump between 2004 and 2005? In short one of the reasons that the rate is so high is because in other countries the incidences would not even be counted as sexual assault, or perhaps even reported. Even the UNODC which is the oft-quoted report when it comes to the claim that Sweden has the highest sexual assault rate in the world says:
"Please note that when using the figures, any cross-national comparisons should be conducted with caution because of the differences that exist between the legal definitions of offences in countries, or the different methods of offence counting and recording."
But, it's a convenient figure, and a handy graph to use for making a point, and so that's all good.
Huh...look at the USA...that's quite a high rate there isn't it? Must be all the....Mexicans?
Fake News Sources:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...on-and-sweden/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7591636.html