Fear of violent crime.

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  1. Violent Crimes in Greece, despite being low, we have to thank two certain minorities. I know, blaming minorities ain’t the politically correct argument, however, true.

    Check Cyprus paradigmatically… They lack both of those two minorities…

  2. The threshold of fear is very low in Sweden, these people are very sensible because they live so well and are so progressive, while Poles don’t fear anything, they don’t even know what fear is, as recent events show. You simply cannot compare.

    *This is irony*

  3. I don’t understand what we are supposed to be told by this map. Is green good or bad? The fuck those numbers mean and what even is the “fear of violent crime”?

  4. Always question terms. What exactly is meant by violent crime and fear of such is ambiguous. It could just mean that they asked “do you feel afraid of violent crime?” In which case rational folks would say “yes of course, violent crime bad.”

    It could also mean “are you afraid of violent crime in your community?” In which case again, the rational response is “sure, what violent crime there is in my community, I am afraid of it.”

    But if the question is “are you afraid that you yourself will experience violent crime in the near or mid term future?” Then yeah, fear of it might be predicated on a local crime problem that’s unusual. But I doubt that was the question.

  5. I always said I’m feeling safer in Bucharest or Tirana than in any one of Marseille or Sweden’s big cities for example

  6. Would be interesting to compare “fear of” sentiment with actual crime data (probably not on a map, more like XY scatter graph)

  7. this is such a shit map.

    1. What are the numbers for? 10%? 10 every 100.000 people?
    2. Based on what? If it’s 10%, are only 10% of the people that got asked were scared of that?
    3. Source?

  8. That is, of course, if you are not part of the same sex couple who wants to hold hands on streets. That wouldn’t go well in Moscow or Warsaw.

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