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3.4 is an extremely high number, if you compare with Oslo, Stockholm (1.3) and Helsinki (1.1), but 11 murders is still not a lot per se. The notion that Malmö would be an particularly dangerous city is nothing but breitbart propaganda. Despite those murders, Malmö is ridiculously safe, just like all of Scandinavia.
Why does Malmo in particular have a high murder rate by Scandinavian standards?
Could the demographics possibly be a factor? How does it stack up to say, Stockholm?
Sure it can. Serbian/Bosnian and Iraqi mafia-type organisations are present in Malmö. The % of immigrants is not that different than Stockholm, but AFAIK Malmö is THE "Rust belt" city of Sweden, suffers from high unemployment and poverty.
Sure it can. Serbian/Bosnian and Iraqi mafia-type organisations are present in Malmö. The % of immigrants is not that different than Stockholm, but AFAIK Malmö is THE "Rust belt" city of Sweden, suffers from high unemployment and poverty.
Must be mostly the Iraqis. Serbians and Bosnians probably commit very little crime
Malmo is still ridiculously safe by world standards. Iin the US it would be considered practically Tokyo by big city standards. I think only San Diego, San Jose, Seattle, and Portland would have lower murder rates among big cities, and NYC is about at the same level as far as I can recall
Their isn't a U.S big city (Metro of at least 2 million with a central city) that routinely puts numbers lower than Malmo.
The global homicide rate stands at about 6.2 per 100,000 folks (intentional homicide, not war related deaths). Just for the record, the US homicide rate is below the world rate, at about 4.2 per 100,000, and the European homicide rate is even lower than that.
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