In my last post, I pointed out issues with blindly trusting official data on the housing market as there are underreported aspects that may lead to conclusion that are far different from what the mainstream wants you to believe. Yet, this is simply par for the course in the Western world. In this post, I highlight why you cannot trust government data on crime at all.
Let me start with an anecdote: The first time I lived in Berlin, someone broke into our shared apartment. This was due to one of the ditzes living with us keeping her window open. In the middle of the day, someone jumped into the building, grabbed a few items, and went back out. This was certainly a new experience for me. We called the police, which came days later, and they were not particularly motivated. All they did was fill out a form. They were not going to do any kind of investigation and suggested we should keep an eye out on eBay in case any of our items showed up for sale, which was an idiotic suggestion. In short, this was a complete waste of our time. Thankfully, I did not have to deal with a break-in since then but another one would have happened again in Berlin, I wonder if I should even have bothered with reporting it to the police.
Similarly, there is a lot of petty crime that people somehow learn to live with. From people having to traverse through some of the worst parts of Berlin, I received advice such as carrying a “decoy wallet” and putting a few old bank cards as well as twenty or thirty euros in it. The idea was that if you were ever in a tough situation, you could offer your decoy wallet and get away. There had to be some money in it in order to not upset the local criminals.
Thus, the first problem with crime in the West is that, at least in big cities, it is so common that a lot of people have become numb to it. It seems that this is simply part and parcel of living in a multicultural hellhole. If people are numb to crime, they do not report it to the police. In turn, the police may even get to report a declining crime rate when actual crime is increasing. This is completely perverted, but I probably do not need to point out that this could be by design, i.e. you cut funding to the police in order to demoralize the population, but this improves the numbers of reported crime. On a side note, I know from other parts in Germany that the police sometimes go out and randomly frisk people because they need to get crime numbers up in order to justify their budget.
Related is the issue of the actual criminals. As is widely known, foreign doctors and engineers are heavily overrepresented in criminal statistics, which is politically inconvenient. There are rather creative ways of dealing with this problem. The first one is to discourage the population from reporting migrant crime. Surely, you do not want to be called a racist for calling the police! Little Ahmed is from a different culture, so Whitey clearly needs to show some understanding and should learn to embrace the cultural enrichment he has received. Particularly ingenious is the plan of simply handing out citizenship to anyone who applies. The German and Swedish government, and surely many others, put few demands on new arrivals. You basically get citizenship papers if you manage to survive on welfare for a few years. Even a substantial rap sheet is no impediment. As a consequence, the government can turn around and tell the people that the locals also commit crimes. Most amazingly, however, immigrant crime is so high, and rising, that it outpaces the rate at which citizenship is granted to these people.
In the West there is also the concept that below a certain age you cannot legally commit crimes. Of course little Abdullah can commit crimes. He simply cannot be held accountable for having committed them. In such situations, people may simply chose to not go to the police because this would at best lead to the added humiliation of being told that there is nothing the police can do, and social workers also do not want to get involved because they are afraid of their safety.
As you can see, Western governments have found very effective ways of dealing with criminals, and unlike Duderte in the Philippines or Bukele in El Salvador, who arrested over 80,000 criminals, this is done without locking people up or even bothering the police at all. It is a miracle. If only the entire world could be this enlightened.