Blut posted:

Keeps with my "Brussels is bad" theme from last week I guess.

The England/Scotland huge difference is interesting, I wonder if thats down to London.

Count Roland posted:

Sweden being such an outlier is also interesting.

quote:

This study conducted by Göran Adamson and Tino Sanandaji is the first purely descriptive scientific investigation on the matter in fifteen years. The investigation (from 2002 to 2017) covers seven distinct categories of crime, and distinguishes between seven regions of origin. Based on 33 per cent of the population (2017), 58 per cent of those suspect for total crime on reasonable grounds are migrants. Regarding murder, manslaughter and attempted murder, the figures are 73 per cent, while the proportion of robbery is 70 per cent.

SlothfulCobra posted:

https://twitter.com/ritardatario1/status/1594359451779493888

Also more English subway map talk.

FreudianSlippers posted:

The one in northern Denmark is a big artillery battery and underground bunker complex the Germans built in WW2 so they could shoot anything entering the Baltic. In practice it became a place that well connected Germans could have their sons sent to get as far away from the action as possible. It's now a museum.





I'm guessing the dot directly across from it in Norway is its twin base.

Does that count as a castle?

Blut posted:

Sweden's had a pretty awful last 15 years for crime increases:





They're not doing well absorbing/integrating their recent immigrant wave at all:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-019-00436-8

SlothfulCobra posted:

Specifically a castle is supposed to be a fort that is also a primary residence.

SlothfulCobra posted:

https://twitter.com/ritardatario1/status/1594359451779493888

Also more English subway map talk.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

I expected Britain to have a lot more castles

i say swears online posted:

what's with galicia? it wasn't a major front in the reconquista compared to central and southern spain

Pope Hilarius II posted:

Does the report make a difference between actual migrants and people who descend from immigrant families? Because I thought it was common sociological wisdom that immigrants themselves are actually less likely to commit crimes.

King Hong Kong posted:

Isn’t the data for that “castle” map quite bad (in the sense that you are expecting it represent some sort of fortress as opposed to a chateau or anything that happens to have an equivalent term)? I wouldn’t read too much into it.

NYTimes posted:

For decades, integrating immigrants has posed a thorny challenge to the Danish model, intended to serve a small, homogeneous population. Leaders are focusing their ire on urban neighborhoods where immigrants, some of them placed there by the government, live in dense concentrations with high rates of unemployment and gang violence.

Politicians’ description of the ghettos has become increasingly sinister. In his annual New Year’s speech, Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen warned that ghettos could “reach out their tentacles onto the streets” by spreading violence, and that because of ghettos, “cracks have appeared on the map of Denmark.” Politicians who once used the word “integration” now call frankly for “assimilation.”

That tough approach is embodied in the “ghetto package.” Of 22 proposals presented by the government in early March, most have been agreed upon by a parliamentary majority, and more will be subject to a vote in the fall.

Some are punitive: One measure under consideration would allow courts to double the punishment for certain crimes if they are committed in one of the 25 neighborhoods classified as ghettos, based on residents’ income, employment status, education levels, number of criminal convictions and “non-Western background.” Another would impose a four-year prison sentence on immigrant parents who force their children to make extended visits to their country of origin — described here as “re-education trips” —in that way damaging their “schooling, language and well-being.” Another would allow local authorities to increase their monitoring and surveillance of “ghetto” families.

Some proposals have been rejected as too radical, like one from the far-right Danish People’s Party that would confine “ghetto children” to their homes after 8 p.m. (Challenged on how this would be enforced, Martin Henriksen, the chairman of Parliament’s integration committee, suggested in earnest that young people in these areas could be fitted with electronic ankle bracelets.)

At this summer’s Folkemodet, an annual political gathering on the island of Bornholm, the justice minister, Soren Pape Poulsen, shrugged off the rights-based objection.

“Some will wail and say, ‘We’re not equal before the law in this country,’ and ‘Certain groups are punished harder,’ but that’s nonsense,” he said, adding that the increased penalties would affect only people who break the law.

To those claiming the measures single out Muslims, he said: “That’s nonsense and rubbish. To me this is about, no matter who lives in these areas and who they believe in, they have to profess to the values required to have a good life in Denmark.”

Natty Ninefingers posted:

They look like the loving projects to me

Natty Ninefingers posted:

Mid rise complexes, each a little island of concentrated poverty in a sea of grass? Little in the way of visible amenities, street life, defensible space, or connections to the greater city/town/whatever the heck?
There’s more funding and upkeep but the visible issues are pretty similar.

ChubbyChecker posted:

what happened with the gun?

Natty Ninefingers posted:

Mid rise complexes, each a little island of concentrated poverty in a sea of grass? Little in the way of visible amenities, street life, defensible space, or connections to the greater city/town/whatever the heck?
There’s more funding and upkeep but the visible issues are pretty similar.

Owling Howl posted:

It's pretty well connected to the rest of the city. In any case it's a non-profit housing co-op managed democratically by the inhabitants themselves.

Starks posted:

*sees mid rise apartment building with gardens and bicycle racks* is this a screencap from The Wire?

Starks posted:

They look like cute little apartment buildings lol wtf

i say swears online posted:

i assume good jobs with secure benefits are widely available for those communities and they just choose to Do Crimes of their own volition

i say swears online posted:

i assume good jobs with secure benefits are widely available for those communities and they just choose to Do Crimes of their own volition

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Natty Ninefingers posted:

They look like the loving projects to me

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Saladman posted:

Such a North American post, lol. Like 90% of people living in cities in Europe live in places that look exactly like that. Including non-immigrants. Europe in general has an absolute poo poo ton more graffiti than the US, so the very small amount of graffiti in that photo isn't really meaningful either.