Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World

[Absinthe]

I am serious. Switzerland also some cities but they aren't nearly as big as Athens. Greece problem is that it's overcentralised so maybe people should be encouraged to return to the countryside and create jobs there instead: decentralise the economy as well as the political system.

Yes!! That's what I keep saying. This would solve at least 50% of the current problems, the local economies would flourish, the big cities would become more liveable, and the beautiful countryside that is now withering away, would be put back on the map.
Plus lots of people would get new job opportunities, either in agriculture or tourism or a combination of both. I'm sick of everyone trying to be a manager or an office clerk and spend their lives driving pointlessly in the city.

So it would work in principle because Greece also has a large countryside and a lot of small islands. Athens would be a different story though so maybe there should be a different kind of government in Athens and a different style of doing things in the countryside.

It would work, it would take a few decades but in the end Greece would be a much better place! Everybody back to their villages/islands/places of origin, make them grow and prosper, and leave Athens some space to "breathe" and become more liveable.... it's a win-win situation in the end

[SilverKnight]

If something ever happens and I'm more stable economically I'm moving there. There's no better thing in this world then peace and a civilize living/ society.

[Ctwentysevenj]

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Wilderswil (Switzerland) (AFP) - Five people were shot dead and a man was seriously injured Monday as two unrelated shooting dramas rocked normally placid Switzerland.

A man is suspected of shooting one woman to death in an apartment in the northern city of Basel before killing another woman and critically injuring a man in a nearby flat, the regional public prosecutor's office said.

Riot police surrounded the apartment of the suspected killer in the evening and arrested him, the statement said, without providing a motive or further details.

The killings came just hours after three bodies were discovered in the Alps town of Wilderswil in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.

One woman and two men had been killed in the shooting near the train station, police said.

"Initial elements indicate that this is a relationship-related crime, and the suspected shooter is one of the two men died," Bern police said in a statement.

Media reported that two men and one woman, all Portuguese citizens, had been killed in a jealousy drama.

According to the Tages Anzeiger daily, the gunman had killed his ex-wife and her new husband, before turning his gun on himself.


Swiss police block off a large area around the crime scene in Wilderswil, southeast of Bern, on Nove…
An acquaintance of the woman told the newspaper that her ex-husband had rung her doorbell and when she opened the door, shot her in the head.

When her new husband, whom she married two months ago, arrived at the scene, he was shot down too.

"She was finally happy again, remarried and with a new job," her boss at the laundromat where she worked told the Blick daily.

The gunman had also reportedly tried to get into the house in what may have been a bid to kill his three children, aged seven to 21, but his eldest daughter slammed the door on him.

The man, who had reportedly been harassing and threatening his ex-wife for some time before the shooting, then took his own life.

Police said the gun used in the shooting had been found.

The shooting dramas shook usually tranquil Switzerland, which is relatively unaccustomed to gun-related crimes.

This despite having one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, since all healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.

[Ctwentysevenj]

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Wilderswil (Switzerland) (AFP) - Five people were shot dead and a man was seriously injured Monday as two unrelated shooting dramas rocked normally placid Switzerland.

A man is suspected of shooting one woman to death in an apartment in the northern city of Basel before killing another woman and critically injuring a man in a nearby flat, the regional public prosecutor's office said.

Riot police surrounded the apartment of the suspected killer in the evening and arrested him, the statement said, without providing a motive or further details.

The killings came just hours after three bodies were discovered in the Alps town of Wilderswil in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.

One woman and two men had been killed in the shooting near the train station, police said.

"Initial elements indicate that this is a relationship-related crime, and the suspected shooter is one of the two men died," Bern police said in a statement.

Media reported that two men and one woman, all Portuguese citizens, had been killed in a jealousy drama.

According to the Tages Anzeiger daily, the gunman had killed his ex-wife and her new husband, before turning his gun on himself.


Swiss police block off a large area around the crime scene in Wilderswil, southeast of Bern, on Nove…
An acquaintance of the woman told the newspaper that her ex-husband had rung her doorbell and when she opened the door, shot her in the head.

When her new husband, whom she married two months ago, arrived at the scene, he was shot down too.

"She was finally happy again, remarried and with a new job," her boss at the laundromat where she worked told the Blick daily.

The gunman had also reportedly tried to get into the house in what may have been a bid to kill his three children, aged seven to 21, but his eldest daughter slammed the door on him.

The man, who had reportedly been harassing and threatening his ex-wife for some time before the shooting, then took his own life.

Police said the gun used in the shooting had been found.

The shooting dramas shook usually tranquil Switzerland, which is relatively unaccustomed to gun-related crimes.

This despite having one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, since all healthy Swiss men aged between 18 and 34 are obliged to do military service and all are issued with assault rifles or pistols which they are supposed to keep at home.

[Aviator]

Guns, White people, and a relatively conservative culture = low crime?

I'm absolutely shocked.

[Ctwentysevenj]

Guns, White people, and a relatively conservative culture = low crime?

I'm absolutely shocked.

Looks like they were all Portuguese immigrants involved both victims and the shooter.

[Desaix DeBurgh]

Guns, White people, and a relatively conservative culture = low crime?

I'm absolutely shocked.

Yeah, according to my calculations there is less than .05% of the population of Switzerland is black. I bet if there were a significant amount of black people in Switzerland the crime rate wouldn't be low.

[StormBringer]

There was a case this year of a fella from Bosnia throwing a hand grenade!!! at his wife after they had a fight, in Switzerland.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-argument.html

In case his ethnicity ever get's revealed, I'd like to be informed, we like keeping tabs on that sort of stuff around here