New research on public perception of crime found the public guessed foreign nationals make up twice the number of sexual offenders than official statistics show (30 per cent compared to 15 per cent). They also estimated foreign nationals make up 25 per cent of the prison population, when in reality they make up just 15 per cent.
Rates of mobile phone theft, domestic burglary, vehicle theft, and murder have all fallen, despite perceptions that all have risen, the study found. In fact, researchers at King’s College London found, the general public were wrong about crime on nearly every measure
Based on two surveys of 1,797 and 2,164 UK adults, the research suggested Reform UK supporters stand out as consistently the most wrong
Color me surprised!
So, parity then? Still, it shows that immigration laws are not good enough. Local are locals. Total random. But with functional immigration rules one can expect nicer people to be let in and bad people are forbidden to enter. No? So with normally working laws percentage of crimes committed by foreigners should be noticeably lower.
How do you propose we determine who will commit a crime before letting them in? Why do locals get a pass to you for committing the same crimes at similar rates as foreigners?
I think someone is misdirecting your anger to the wrong targets. Most immigrants do not want to harm you. Billionaires, on the other hand, love it when we harm each other instead of them. They don’t want to lose their wealth, their power; they want to widen the gap even more. They want to control us through fearmongering and deception.
Worthy of criticism and suggestions to improve, perhaps, but certainly this means the hyperventilating and pearl clutching is entirely unwarranted and misguided at best, right? Purposefully misleading and spreading xenophobia at worst?
We already have mechanisms to prevent those convicted of crimes from being allowed to remain in the country. How do you propose preventing those who might commit a crime in the future from entering the country? It’s impossible.
It is possible. It is quite trivial, actually. Just intellect/erudition test. Clever people tend to be less criminally active. Especially primitive crime-wise like robberies, sex-related crimes, etc. I’m sure an a year or so that test might be tuned to be very effective and absolutely not restrictive.
You have a clear bias and are working backwards from there in order to justify it.
So in just a couple of hours, you’ve gone from “foreigners are all criminals” to “only stupid people commit crime”.
I’m not even going to engage with the ridiculousness of your statement only to say that you must be a career criminal…
I never claimed anything like that. I said that in most countries immigration laws are not good enough.
discuss.tchncs.de nazi posting? Colour me surprised
And are they taking this approach to all such criminals in the country, or does it only matter this much when talking about immigrants?