This is why so many in the UK are hostile to immigration

Here’s the arrest rate for different nationalities in the UK once you weight for their population

Brits = 12 arrests per 1,000 people

Somalis 64.6 per 1,000 people
Moroccans 70 per 1,000 people
Algerians 72.7 per 1,000 people
Iraqis 92.9 per 1,000 people
Afghans 106.9 per 1,000…

— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) January 6, 2025

I am a big fan of immigration, in a controlled way such as we have in NZ. But immigration into a country is a privilege not a right. Generally speaking you should expect immigrants to be more law abiding than the population as a whole, or at least no less law abiding. Otherwise you’re doing something wrong.

In NZ this is the case. The overall crime rate for immigrants from Asia and India is significantly lower than the NZ population as a whole.

What is staggering with this UK data isn;t just the relative differences, but the absolute rate. It seems 1 in 5 Albanians in the UK have been arrested!

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