🚨 Immigration & crime
The Dutch police releases crime statistics by country of origin. Accumulated over 10 years, they provide a fantastic dataset of 2 million data points.
⬇️ THREAD: the 15 most interesting facts about the alarming link between immigration and crime in the 🇳🇱
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1⃣ Individuals from 'non-Western' immigration background make up 14% of the population in the Netherlands. However, they account for a large portion of those implicated:
🔞 Sexual offenses: ~35%
🔪 Assaults: ~40%
💉 Drug offences: ~40%
👊 Violent thefts: ~60%
🚨🇳🇱 Immigration & crime in the Netherlands
Here are the crime rates by origin published on the Dutch official website CBS Statline for the year 2022 ⬇️
African origins dominate the top 20, but only one (🇿🇦) is among the 20 origins with the lowest suspect rates. Conversely, there are many European and Asian origins ⬇️
I would have liked to put both graphs on the same scale, but since the involvement rate of Angolans is 20 times higher than that of the Japanese, the visual representation didn't look good.