How common is it to have an insurance, you use to cover for even smaller things, which needs to be recorded to the police?
You just report it online to the insurance and police?
I guess this show the level of trust in the legal and insurance system rather than real amount of thefts and burglaries.
Otherwise I cannot fathom why there would be almost ten times more in Sweden vs Slovakia.
I wonder if high burglary and theft rates in Sweden are caused because a lot of this stuff gets reported. On the other hand maybe Poles just don’t report that much, so the rates are low ? 🤔
Holy crap. What’s up with the Nordic EU countries? They all have double the EU average at least (Sweden is 3 times) ⚆ _ ⚆
I bet westerns are already typing down the reasons why eastern european’s rates are low
Aww look at all the excuses for the Scandinavian countries. Let’s not burst the bubble that it’s all merry and squeaky clean there. One thing the Scandinavian countries have been extremely good over the past decades is clean PR, however when you visit there there, the reality is akin to the Paris syndrome.
oh boy, since OP does not see the need to post any further clarification, let me make this clear before all the idiotic posters come in here (not like they haven’t already posted):
eurostat themselves state that the stats are not comparable.
>Traditional statistics and scientific studies are often based on survey data and methods such as sampling, interviewing, or measuring, followed by statistical estimation. In contrast, the official crime figures are based on each country’s records made for law enforcement, investigation, prosecution, court cases, and prison administration. This affects how the statistics turn out.
>The basic data is produced by several different authorities, such as the police, prosecution, courts, and prisons. Each authority makes the records primarily for their own purposes, so the data and methods they use may vary.
>Each country establishes its own criminal laws, defines crimes, and governs legal proceedings and justice reactions. For these reasons, the basic data and how it is collected are different in each country.
>**These differences mean it may not be relevant or valid to compare figures between authorities or between countries. For users of crime statistics, this means directly comparing figures between countries may result in misleading inferences or wrong conclusions.**
Oh man, I just saw the graphic and I instantly thought, surely we will have some northern europeans coming here to lecture us about how they don’t really have a crime issue, is just that it’s reported more often than in other countries.
Well let me tell you what, at least in Romania, people take theft and especially burglary very serious, it’s not like someone comes home to find his house has been burglarized and is going to be ok with it and not report it to the cops. Unless they are some kind of drug dealer or something, they will report burglaries snd theft. Shit like this simply doesn’t happen as often as in Western/Northern Europe because:
1. People are more vigilant here. We don’t leave our doors unlocked. We watch our belongings. We don’t give a shit about political correctness, when we see Roma gypsies we watch their every move with one eye and keep the other on our belongings. We don’t easily fall for their shitty tricks.
2. Theft is actually taken seriously here. We don’t differentiate between stealing something worth one Euro and something worth one million Euros. Stealing anything can get you sent to prison. Even shoplifting. Sometimes the police doesn’t want to wait for a judge to teach you a lesson, they will teach you one on the spot. I remember once at a train station some hobos stole a guy’s bag from the train. The police caught one of the hobos, got him back to their office (which was inside the train station) and beat the living shit out of him for 20 minutes on the clock. I know because I was next to the door and this is how much the screaming lasted. When they let him out he could barely walk. Pretty sure he didn’t steal any more bags ever since.
Remember that crime *recording* is not actual crime: it makes sense that more competent institutions from more prosperous countries do better their job at prosecuting crime.
Because one of the biggest reasons is home insurance. You need to fine a police report to claim compensations from insurance companies.
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Source: [Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/crim_off_cat/default/table?lang=en)
How common is it to have an insurance, you use to cover for even smaller things, which needs to be recorded to the police?
You just report it online to the insurance and police?
I guess this show the level of trust in the legal and insurance system rather than real amount of thefts and burglaries.
Otherwise I cannot fathom why there would be almost ten times more in Sweden vs Slovakia.
I wonder if high burglary and theft rates in Sweden are caused because a lot of this stuff gets reported. On the other hand maybe Poles just don’t report that much, so the rates are low ? 🤔
Holy crap. What’s up with the Nordic EU countries? They all have double the EU average at least (Sweden is 3 times) ⚆ _ ⚆
I bet westerns are already typing down the reasons why eastern european’s rates are low
Aww look at all the excuses for the Scandinavian countries. Let’s not burst the bubble that it’s all merry and squeaky clean there. One thing the Scandinavian countries have been extremely good over the past decades is clean PR, however when you visit there there, the reality is akin to the Paris syndrome.
oh boy, since OP does not see the need to post any further clarification, let me make this clear before all the idiotic posters come in here (not like they haven’t already posted):
eurostat themselves state that the stats are not comparable.
>Traditional statistics and scientific studies are often based on survey data and methods such as sampling, interviewing, or measuring, followed by statistical estimation. In contrast, the official crime figures are based on each country’s records made for law enforcement, investigation, prosecution, court cases, and prison administration. This affects how the statistics turn out.
>The basic data is produced by several different authorities, such as the police, prosecution, courts, and prisons. Each authority makes the records primarily for their own purposes, so the data and methods they use may vary.
>Each country establishes its own criminal laws, defines crimes, and governs legal proceedings and justice reactions. For these reasons, the basic data and how it is collected are different in each country.
>**These differences mean it may not be relevant or valid to compare figures between authorities or between countries. For users of crime statistics, this means directly comparing figures between countries may result in misleading inferences or wrong conclusions.**
Oh man, I just saw the graphic and I instantly thought, surely we will have some northern europeans coming here to lecture us about how they don’t really have a crime issue, is just that it’s reported more often than in other countries.
Well let me tell you what, at least in Romania, people take theft and especially burglary very serious, it’s not like someone comes home to find his house has been burglarized and is going to be ok with it and not report it to the cops. Unless they are some kind of drug dealer or something, they will report burglaries snd theft. Shit like this simply doesn’t happen as often as in Western/Northern Europe because:
1. People are more vigilant here. We don’t leave our doors unlocked. We watch our belongings. We don’t give a shit about political correctness, when we see Roma gypsies we watch their every move with one eye and keep the other on our belongings. We don’t easily fall for their shitty tricks.
2. Theft is actually taken seriously here. We don’t differentiate between stealing something worth one Euro and something worth one million Euros. Stealing anything can get you sent to prison. Even shoplifting. Sometimes the police doesn’t want to wait for a judge to teach you a lesson, they will teach you one on the spot. I remember once at a train station some hobos stole a guy’s bag from the train. The police caught one of the hobos, got him back to their office (which was inside the train station) and beat the living shit out of him for 20 minutes on the clock. I know because I was next to the door and this is how much the screaming lasted. When they let him out he could barely walk. Pretty sure he didn’t steal any more bags ever since.
Remember that crime *recording* is not actual crime: it makes sense that more competent institutions from more prosperous countries do better their job at prosecuting crime.
Because one of the biggest reasons is home insurance. You need to fine a police report to claim compensations from insurance companies.