Ever met a Roma who didn't mug you? You mention knowing a nice well educated one - are Roma therefore all nice and well educated?
You are trying to say that if one robbed you, not all are criminals. Absolutely true, no argument here. But the percent of Roma criminals is significantly higher than that of Bulgarians and Turks.
About your story - I see your point. People like to fall in generalizations - "If one Jew is bad, all are bad". That's not what I meant though - the statistics show that there are more criminals from the Roma population. Whereas, for example, a recent poll shows the black people in the US are in fact not even close to the crime levels exhibited by the newly entering immigrants, especially those from Mexico. So the notion of "thieving blacks" is actually unfounded, at least now. Be careful! Is it classified?
Darin, you still don't get it. A higher crime rate still doesn't make blanket statements of the "thieving blacks" type justified. If 10 instead of 1 out of 100 are criminals, that's still a small minority. (And if there have been a few reports of 'whites' being attacked in Gypsy quarters, as they have been in Bulgaria as well as Hungary and Slovakia, that still makes most of them safe.) Meanwhile, you still insist to take police statistics at face value. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
And if there have been a few reports of 'whites' being attacked in Gypsy quarters, as they have been in Bulgaria as well as Hungary and Slovakia, that still makes most of them safe.
"White" people as you labeled them, enter gypsy quarters just as much as gypsies go out of their neighborhood. I believe we've seen or heard of accidents in both scenarios. The problem is that gypsies and "whites" keep a distance from each other, unless their job inolves close contact.
Meanwhile, you still insist to take police statistics at face value.
If there is another tool to measure the crime levels, please do share! Be careful! Is it classified?
