Not for ordinary citizens: the interpol crime rates.

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foreverinchina

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Posted: Dec 18, 2006 - 07:27 PM
Post subject: Not for ordinary citizens: the interpol crime rates.

Interpol's international crime statistics have recently been removed from its website:
http://www.interpol.int/Public/Statistics/ICS/Default.asp

On Secret Interpol Files:

Comparing crime rates across borders is notoriously difficult, primarily because of the different definitions of different categories of crimes (e.g. is a suicide a murder or not ?), but also because of different approaches to policing: rape reporting to the police varies from country to country and it seems the way the police treat victims has a large impact on the likelihood of reporting. I was curious about the true situation, but unsure what to believe of the official MSM gospel about crime, i.e. that Europe is a haven of peace compared to the USA, so I spent some time trying to understand what was really going on. This is what I have found.

There are two main approaches to collect crime statistics : (i) based on crimes reported to the police and (ii) by polling a representative sample of the population. Sadly, for many crimes, in particular non-violent crimes, police statistics are probably underestimating the true crime rate. One could think of French police authorities, who have targets to reduce crime in their area and who make any declaration of any crime so cumbersome that most victims don't bother, and in Italy, only in 15% of cases of experienced car vandalism do owners bother to report to the police, whilst in the US this percentage is 51% (ICVS). Furthermore, the success rate of the police in catching minor criminals is often so low, that victims don't see the point in declaring a crime. Hence, countries with high reporting rates, such as the US, tend to do worse in reported crime statistics. For most crimes, in particular non-violent ones, a much telling source of data is that of the International Crime Victim Survey.

The International Crime Victim Survey, sponsored by Leiden University, is a survey based on interviews with a random sample of the population. There have been three such surveys in the last 20 years, the latest one in 1995. Respondents are asked which crimes, from a standardised list ranging from bicycle theft to assault and theft, they have personally experienced during the previous year. The most obvious crime missing from the ICVS list is murder, since victims are unable to take later interviews.

Violent crime, and in particular murders, is reported to police more often. For instance, it can be assumed that apart from underworld murders and missing persons, almost all murders in the developed world are reported to the police. Still, even for reported violent crime, a better source than statistics from individual countries, which are distorted by differing national crime definitions, are international comparative statistics by Interpol, which are said to be based on more standardised definitions of crime categories. However, intriguingly, Interpol's international crime statistics have recently been removed from its website. Clearly, such information needs to be hidden from ordinary citizen (who are paying Interpol with their taxes) to prevent them from reaching any wrong judgments about their governments ability to perform the most important task : protect citizens from violence. Luckily I have a copy of some of the 2002 Interpol data, but I am unable to link to what has apparently become a state secret.

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Clearly, Norwegians (and other Europeans) have not yet arrived at the conclusions Americans have reached a decade ago. That time will come, despite all efforts of the elites to convince the masses that all is well in multicultural Europe.

And why have the Interpol statistics been made a secret to ordinary citizens?

read more:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1758

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wolfy
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Posted: Dec 19, 2006 - 09:03 AM
Post subject: Re: Not for ordinary citizens: the interpol crime rates.

foreverinchina wrote:

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The Brussels Journal is a Belgian conservative blog, founded and edited by Paul Belien.

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In May 2006, Belien removed a post "Geef ons Wapens!" (Give us Weapons!) from his blog, The Brussels Journal, after receiving a letter from the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism, an agency that falls under the responsibility of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and directed by Jozef de Witte, asking him to remove the text, because, they claim, it violates the Belgian law of 1981 on racism and xenophobia.[6] The text, originally in Dutch, was written in the context of the Joe Van Holsbeeck murder, which was originally thought to have been perpetrated by people of North African decent (but later found to be perpetrated by Polish immigrants of Gypsy (Sinti) decent). Paul Belien denied all allegations of the Centre, but did remove the text.[7] A translation of an extract from the text follows:

The predators have teeth and claws. The predators have knives. Starting when they're small, they learn at their yearly offerings how to cut the throats of warm-blooded livestock. We get sick at the sight of blood, but they don't. They're trained and they're armed. We can't even carry pepperspray in our pockets. They have switchblades and butchers knives and they know how to use them.[8]

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