Sweden: 25 Percent of people named ‘Ali’ have a criminal record

[coolfrenchguy]

Sweden: 25 Percent of people named ‘Ali’ have a criminal record

By Arthur Lyons 12 November 2019

Official figures from Statistics Sweden and a legal database have revealed that nearly a quarter of individuals named ‘Ali’ who live in Sweden have a criminal record, a new report from Samhällsnytt has revealed.
A quick search in Statistics Sweden’s database revealed that 40,790 people with the name Ali as their first or surname are currently living in Sweden. Another search in Lexbase – a website and database that allows users to perform searches on people and companies who’ve been the subject of criminal trials – for the name Ali, rendered 9,742 hits.
The data clearly reveals that nearly a quarter (24 percent) of those living in Sweden with the name Ali have criminal convictions.
In their investigative research, Samhällsnytt discovered similar results for other Islamic names.
For example, 26,867 people by the name of Ahmed are listed in Statistics Sweden’s database. A quick search for the name Ahmed in Lexbase yielded 4,944 hits, meaning that nearly one in four people with the name Ahmed living in Sweden have criminal records.
Similarly, for the name Murad, 1,315 are listed as living in Sweden by Statistics Sweden. Of that number, 274 are present in Lexbase, meaning 21 percent have criminal convictions.
Because the Swedish government abolished the practice of recording the ethnicity of convicted criminals after 2005, it’s been incredibly difficult to map who’s committing what crimes.
In a 2005 study, the very last of its kind, figures revealed that foreign-born men were five times as likely to be suspected of sex crimes than native-born Swedes.
Since then, many independent studies have been carried out which have elucidated that non-native Swedes commit crimes at drastically higher rates than native Swedes.


do the maths : 40.790+26.967+1315 =69072 of rotten scumbags and it's is a lot

[Tigranes]

Do you also have statistics for individuals named 'Muhammad'?

[Ymyyakhtakh]

A quick search in Statistics Sweden’s database revealed that 40,790 people with the name Ali as their first or surname are currently living in Sweden.

Here's the website of Statistics Sweden: https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statis...earchInput=ali.

Your quotation is wrong on two accounts. The figure of 40,790 was derived by summing the number of males (not people) who had Ali as one of their first names (26,115) with the number of people who had Ali as a surname (14,675). Therefore people who had Ali both as a surname and as one of their first names (including patronymics) are counted twice. Also it does not include the 6,474 females who had Ali as one of their first names (in most cases a patronymic).



Here's the Lexbase website: https://www.lexbase.se/personsok?Sea...%5Bcity%5D=&_=.

There are people who have "Ali" as a first name, a patronymic, and a surname:



I think the number of persons returned by Lexbase's search might not be an accurate reflection of the number of persons with a criminal record for the following reasons:

- I think the search returns persons who were involved in a court case but who were not convicted.
- I think the search returns persons who were involved in a civil case (tvistemål) in addition to persons who were involved in a criminal case (brottmål).
- According to Lexbase's Q&A page, persons under the age of 18 are not searchable.
- According to Lexbase's Q&A page, information about some cases is discarded after a certain period of time.
- I think some old criminal cases might not be covered by the database.
- I'm not sure if the search returns persons who were involved in a court case but not in the role of the accused (even though Lexbase's Q&A page says that witnesses and victims are not searchable).

Here are sections of a Google translation of the "Frågor & Svar" (questions and answers) page on the website of Lexbase:

Lexbase's legal database is updated with thousands of documents every day. The database contains judgments from Swedish courts in criminal and dispute cases.

[...]

Lexbase's legal database is updated with thousands of documents every day. The database contains judgments from Swedish courts in criminal and dispute cases. The criminal cases are thrown out after a while (depending on the crime) but not earlier than five years. The penalties are waived after five years. The disputes are thwarted after 20 years.

[...]

Because we handle sensitive information, albeit in the public domain, it is important that we protect vulnerable parties, such as witnesses and victims. We guarantee that these are not searchable and that court decisions on confidentiality are followed. The judges are shown in their entirety for not giving an angled image and we are responsible for no manipulation of data. Because of these ethical positions, we apply the following rules:

- Witnesses and victims of crime are NOT searchable
- Witnesses and victims are NOT shown if the court has decided on confidentiality
- Persons under the age of 18 are NOT searchable