Damned foreign criminals

**mudskipper** · 14 December 2014, 19:40

Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

One in seven people arrested in Britain last year were FOREIGN, figures reveal | Daily Mail Online

Have we not got enough home grown criminals?

arrest != conviction

The stats could just as easily be interpreted that the police are arresting people because they're foreign.

**NickFitz** · 14 December 2014, 19:50

Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post

Have we not got enough home grown criminals?

Six out of seven, according to the headline. That's not a bad showing at all by the British criminals, given that the Mail would have us believe that immigrants make up approximately 97.3% of the population

**BrilloPad** · 14 December 2014, 20:25

Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Six out of seven, according to the headline. That's not a bad showing at all by the British criminals, given that the Mail would have us believe that immigrants make up approximately 97.3% of the population

And 98.8% of the house worth....

**BrilloPad** · 14 December 2014, 20:28

Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

arrest != conviction

The stats could just as easily be interpreted that the police are arresting people because they're foreign.

Makes a change from arresting them because of their colour.

**xoggoth** · 14 December 2014, 20:35

Mail would have us believe that immigrants make up approximately 97.3% of the population

Or rather, that you lefties falsely accuse the Mail of saying that. Of course it doesn't and never has. Even if immigrant only means foreign born the figures should be under 1 in 8. Actually the story is about "foreigners" which presumably does not include those who now have British citizenship and the figure should be even smaller. And the effects of previous immigration waves, 2nd and 3rd generations, must always be discounted because they are British citizens. How very convenient.

Lefties : Immigrants are wonderful, much harder working and law abiding than the British.
Righties: But, if you look at the statistics, some ethnic groups that immigration has given us since 1950 are up to 7 times more likely to be in prison than the white British!
Lefties: But they are not immigrants, they are British! What we need is more hard working migrants like them.

Lefties (in 50 years time): ....

And so it goes on. Learn from our mistakes? Fat chance.

Damned foreign criminals