> Yet British judges blocked Kolicaj’s deportation on the grounds that the Home Office had “failed to take sufficient account of his human rights”.....could you get a more poetic line on just how far the British establishment has disappeared up its own backside. And yet anyone who is not a politics obssessive or a Substacker will know little of such things because their take on the 'issues' facing their country will be some sort of BBC-type Sunak or Starmer blah blah. Weep for us.
Britain just can't win. They import Muslims who rape their women and attack their men. they import criminals from Albania. I'd ask why they don't import decent people, but we know the answer to that.
'it is meaningless to talk about the impact of immigration per se.'
This seems rather a strong claim. You mean it's necessary to examine effects at the level of discrete (sub)populations?
'the incarceration rate is a noisy measure of criminality insofar as incarceration itself is a rare event.'
Yes, and not only this, but it *could* be that the incarceration rate is not very well correlated with the crime rate. More 'viscous' immigrant groups have higher 'asabiyah', meaning that their criminals are less likely to be caught.
Do you recall the search in Molenbeek(?) for the bomber of Brussels airport? Was he ever caught? All I remember is that the Moroccans there clammed up. This is the kind of thing I mean by 'viscosity' (clannishess, more or less).
Have you heard of the Albanian 'Kanun'? THAT is viscosity. So how much *additional* crime is being committed by Albanians for which they're never caught? My guess is that the amount is non-trivial.
Pakistanis in Britain are clannish too, meaning that your finding in another article of a LOW incarceration rate for them may not reflect the Pakistani crime rate very accurately.
So, along with crime rate per head, maybe a relevant way to determine which nations are likely to produce good immigrants is some sort of measure of population viscosity.
> Yet British judges blocked Kolicaj’s deportation on the grounds that the Home Office had “failed to take sufficient account of his human rights”.....could you get a more poetic line on just how far the British establishment has disappeared up its own backside. And yet anyone who is not a politics obssessive or a Substacker will know little of such things because their take on the 'issues' facing their country will be some sort of BBC-type Sunak or Starmer blah blah. Weep for us.
Thanks for an interesting article.
Immigrants should not be selected based on nationality but on desired traits.
Britain just can't win. They import Muslims who rape their women and attack their men. they import criminals from Albania. I'd ask why they don't import decent people, but we know the answer to that.
'it is meaningless to talk about the impact of immigration per se.'
This seems rather a strong claim. You mean it's necessary to examine effects at the level of discrete (sub)populations?
'the incarceration rate is a noisy measure of criminality insofar as incarceration itself is a rare event.'
Yes, and not only this, but it *could* be that the incarceration rate is not very well correlated with the crime rate. More 'viscous' immigrant groups have higher 'asabiyah', meaning that their criminals are less likely to be caught.
Do you recall the search in Molenbeek(?) for the bomber of Brussels airport? Was he ever caught? All I remember is that the Moroccans there clammed up. This is the kind of thing I mean by 'viscosity' (clannishess, more or less).
Have you heard of the Albanian 'Kanun'? THAT is viscosity. So how much *additional* crime is being committed by Albanians for which they're never caught? My guess is that the amount is non-trivial.
Pakistanis in Britain are clannish too, meaning that your finding in another article of a LOW incarceration rate for them may not reflect the Pakistani crime rate very accurately.
So, along with crime rate per head, maybe a relevant way to determine which nations are likely to produce good immigrants is some sort of measure of population viscosity.
Age plays a significant role, as a majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by young males.