About immigrants and #crime. Imagine a sack of 50 onions. I notice that one up top is rotten, and I conclude, "Onions are rotten! I hate onions!"
These are pretty much the numbers we're dealing with. You can't characterise a population from a 2% sample that isn't even random. Learn some high school #statistics, people. Read up on the concept of "representative sample".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)
#immigration
Martin Rundkvist
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