Four times more crime in Oslo than New York
The crime rate in Oslo has been growing at an alarming rate and recent statistics show the Norwegian capital had 20 percent more robberies last year than in 2006.While crime in the rest of Norway has been going down, it has been quite another situation in Oslo, where personal and automobile thefts increased markedly last year.Oslo had the highest rate per person in Scandinavia in terms of reported crimes, with 90 reported crimes per 1,000. Copenhagen had 50 crimes reported per 1,000 and Stockholm had 79. In New York, there were 22 reported crimes per 1,000 inhabitants. This means there were four times as many reported crimes per person in Oslo as in New York. The Oslo police are blaming the increase on an influx of East Europeans, and Minister of Justice Knut Storberget is reportedly partly in agreement.However, Storberget said it is necessary to be careful drawing parallels with such statistics.
Note EU-Digest: Statistics like this are similar to comparing two people of which one has a large number injuries on his/her body needing immediate treatment while the other has no outward signs of injury, but has slow terminal liver cancer which one day could kill him/her. Regardless, it must be said that reports like this are good reading material for all those cocky Europeans who believe Europe is the Walhalla on earth."
No comments:
Post a Comment