Quote Originally Posted by CoccoBill View Post
It doesn't show crime, it shows reported crime. I just posted you the convictions, which show a 23% drop in rape in the past 10 years, and a 10% drop in all crimes.
But, maths though! Are those counting incidents, or offenders? It doesn't follow that reported crime could be up so much, and convictions go down at the same time. In other words, if a guy rapes his wife every day for a year, that's 365 reported incidents. If he's convicted, how many convictions is that? There's been more than a few accusations lobbed at the Swedish government for cooking the books. Something's not right here.

The UN seems to disagree with the reported drop in conviction rates. They're measuring convicts per capita, which is a function of population, not some convoluted statistics scheme.

The United Nations holds official statistics on the number of convictions for rape per 100,000 people and actually, by that measure, Sweden has the highest number of convictions per capita in Europe, bar Russia. In 2010, 3.7 convictions were achieved per 100,000 population.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19592372
It's really tough to trust any numbers in this. And I simply don't believe that the concern was invented out of thin air.

I guess, let's just put it this way...

Would you let your daughter spend a year as a college exchange student in Sweden?

I would not.