question about crime among the somali UK-US Diaspora

[Distant1]

2 things to add.

1) Black people cannot commit more crimes than white people because they are a minority population. This is even more clear when it comes to Somalis. Every adult Somali in the UK could commit a crime and it would still be less than white criminals.
But what we do have is over representation of black criminals in certain types of crime, and over representation in the media.
Which leads me to my second point.

2) Minority ethnic’s are over represented in certain crimes but not others. These tend to be crimes of poverty. Theft, selling drugs, robberies, gang violence. These type of crimes are more obvious, and so they are more sensationalised in the media. White-collar crimes like insurance fraud, Corporation fraud, money laundering, high end drug cartels, don’t get as much media coverage, and they are mostly white people crimes ( maybe some Asians for drugs). Same with pedophilia, serial killers/attackers, mostly white.

Theres also some dodgy agenda in the UK media to over emphasise ethnic criminals. Like there was a pedophile ring of Pakistanis a few years ago. And their ethnicity and religion were a key factor in the reporting. Even though white men make up like 99% of all pedophiles in prison. But that 1x they find an ethnic committing a crime it’s treated as a pandemic of ethnic people aping out and being degenerates. This is one reason ethnics stand out - another reason unique to Somalis is because we have a high proportion of ilmo xoolo ah oo waligood yac la dhahin and who no one bothered to actually raise.


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So you think its poverty or something cultural?

 

[QueenofKings]

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So you think its poverty or something cultural?

niyadaa ii dhisee, but I’ll take it

It’s probably both, and the two are interrelated. Chances are if someone is culturally and socially poor, they are also financially poor. IMO lack of guidance + lack of resources = primed for going off the rails.

But being financially poor doesn’t always mean you will be culturally poor. Lack of resources + guidance and support at home = chance to not go off the rails.

 

[Mozart]

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So you think its poverty or something cultural?

It used to be poverty but it’s now cultural. Kids are invested in knife crime because it’s a quick and easy come up into rap/street fame. Most people don’t realise how dangerous a knife is as well lol a guy I know stabbed someone but didn’t think it would kill him and he got 16 years.