I'm looking at a Wikipedia map of homocide rates and see that Poland has one of the lowest rates, especially among countries with over one million people. Only 256 homocides in 2016 with a murder rate lower than that of Denmark, New Zealand, and Sweden.
I don't think of Poles as being violent, but was still a bit surprised to see such a low number.
OK I found the list of countries by traffic-related death rate. Poland doesn't score as well, but still better than Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, and the USA.
What do you think the reason is for Poland having so many traffic death? Unsafe roads, drinking, speeding, not paying attention?
What about pedestrians being struck by cars? Is this frequent in Poland?
Now look up the amount of people killed on the roads vs those countries.
It used to have the worst road death rate in the EU. maybe that's changed, though I suspect it's still high on the table.
People used to excuse the high accident rates by saying it's the fault of the roads. No it bloody isn't; the worse the road is, the more carefully and safely you should drive...
Wikipedia map of homocide rates and see that Poland has one of the lowest rates
The number of homicides has risen to 519 in the year 2017, an increase of 50 in relation to the previous rate - acording to the Rzeczpospolita daily. So according to your data, the number in 2016 was 256, but according to my source, the number was 469.
A big difference! Here are numbers for the years (liczba zabójstw w Polsce; source: Komenda Główna Policji): 2014 - 532 2015 - 502 2016 - 469 2017 - 519
I used the list of countries by intentional homocide rate on Wikipedia. Maybe it's the "intentional" part that's the source of discrepancy. In any case, 519 is still fairly low given Poland's population of nearly 40 million.
Still, it's almost twice as many as you've given. To say that it is low, you have to compare the rates rather than numbers
What's the difference between 'intentional' and 'unintentional' homicide? Homicide is always intentional, I think. Unintended killing would be called 'manslaughter', I think.
519 is still fairly low given Poland's population of nearly 40 million
true..tho, about 3 million young poles reside outside Poland,and most of those are people between 20- 40 years old. this 20-40 group are most likely to commit crime.old pensioners and kids are far less likely.Poland is becoming elderly care home but then again,there are 3 millions young Ukrainians in Poland.
. In any case, 519 is still fairly low given Poland's population of nearly 40 million.
After EU entry, in some small towns the crime rates plummeted. Largely because a particular demographic who can sadly be a murderer or a victim of murder (young, male, poor. drinkers, unemployed etc) had moved elsewhere to seek gainful employment.
Stats are for murders in Poland. They include murders that happened in Poland regardless of the citizenship of the perpetrator or the victim. Poles abroad can and do sometimes get murdered or murder others.
well,there are millions of young ukrainians in Poland..still crime rate is low in Poland ,despite just a fraction of resources spent on prevention compare to western countries.
kill someone by accident when you were only trying to beat him up
That's indeed possible, How would you qualify, for example, the recent murder of the mayor of Gdańsk.who was stabbed, but survived the attack for a time-being and died only later in hospital?
Manslaughter could be unintentionally running over a pedestrian while speeding.
That would be a fatal road accident and would not go into the statistics of unintentional homicide.
That would be a fatal road accident and would not go into the statistics of unintentional homicide.
In the UK it would be death by dangerous driving, due to the speeding.
the death of the Gdansk mayor became an intentional homicide once
It would be difficult for any lawyer to say it was unintentional given the killer's announcement over the microphone and the fact that he stabbed him several times.
Have you seen this man? And know his whereabouts? Allegedly, he escaped to Switzerland after causing a one-punch death of a known sportsman, a wrestler, in the street.
Ukraine does have relatively high homicide rates committed with cold weapon, but really low rates committed with help of a firearms. Still much lower than in Russia.
This is peak Polish law absurdity - a serial attacker of women who terrorised Warsaw in the 90s, who killed 5 women, attacked 29 in total leaving them with serious brain injuries (he was attacking them on the head with a blunt weapon) and admitted that he did this, because he "hates women" and he "can't help himself" ("women are for elimination") was let out of prison after serving his sentence despite the fact that the experts appointed by the court to examine him concluded the following:
"despite resocialization attempts he still lacks criticism towards the forbidden acts committed by him and his personality deficits indicate a high likelihood of committing similar forbidden acts in the future":
So, in other words - he's a psychopath who's likely to kill women again and he shouldn't be let out.
Jesus Christ...
I have no words for this stupidity. It doesn't look like human life is cherished enough in Poland. 😢 Politicians are soooo concerned about birth rates, but what about people who are already alive? They don't count? 🤦
Seeing the words: "a serial attacker of women who terrorised Warsaw in the 90s" I did wonder if you meant the one with the hammer who used to come up behind women on the street.
He should't be released ever. 29 attacks and 5 murders. No.
Many countries have Old People's Homes that are satellites to secure psychiatric hospitals and similar buildings within their prison estate that house people who can't be in the community due to the fear they cause, especially among women, and the threat of retribution against them.
a high likelihood of committing similar forbidden acts in the future.
This reason alone should prevent his release.
There are probably several serial killers out there now. Fundacja Itaka did a display of photos of missing people with details of their disappearances and there were just too many, especially teenage girls in the countryside and small towns setting off from school and never arriving home.
The FBI say that in there country there are probably around 40 serial killers operating at any one time. The maths suggest that Poland probably has around 5.
