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Are Finnish murderers bad at hiding evidence and traces or are just the police are investigators absolute heroes?
Well done on those guys. Five years and solving everyone
The typical homicide in Finland is an middle-aged unemployed alcoholic man killing his middle-aged unemployed drinking buddy in a private apartment with a kitchen knife. Both are drunk at the time of the deed, it happens on the weekend, both the killer and the victim have several previous convictions.
These are not very hard to solve. But yes, the starting point of the police is that no murder should be unsolved.
As someone says: "a Finnish homicide is especially tragic - you kill your best friend".
Our homicide rate in 2015 was exactly 1.0/100,000, which was an increase from 2014.
It was nearly 2 per 100,000 in 2003 (the peak). We had over 1,000 murders that year - not much more than the city of Chicago in 2016.
In the United States any city finishing with such a rate is unthinkable, even our safest cities are at least 3 or 4 per 100,000. Altho if Manhattan and Queens were separate cities they would be like Europe, they often hover between 1.5 and 3 per 100,000
Many cities in Chile actually have European homicide rates, Viña del Mar, Concepcion, La Serena come to mind. Valparaiso is considered dangerous by Chilean standards but it has a homicide rate of 4 per 100,000 which would make it one of the safest cities in the United States and in the Americas as well
King Olaf II of Norway (Saint Olaf) on a raid to Finland according to the Heimskringla saga:
The Finlanders conjured up in the night, by their witchcraft, a dreadful storm
and bad weather on the sea; but the king ordered the anchors to
be weighed and sail hoisted, and beat off all night to the
outside of the land. The king's luck prevailed more than the
Finlanders' witchcraft; for he had the luck to beat round the
Balagard's side in the night. and so got out to sea. But the
Finnish army proceeded on land, making the same progress as the
king made with his ships. So says Sigvat
Too bad that we have lost this ability. Would be nice if we could still conjure thunderstorms and such. "Damn, the t-storm missed me completely. Well, let's create another one."
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