Of course it does, for many reasons, including the problem of gangs and home invasions:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-02/street-gangs-are-a-problem-in-melbourne-police-admit/9297984
“Victorian police have conceded Melbourne has a problem with African street gangs, after earlier insisting there were no gangs in the city, as the State Government rejects criticism it has dropped the ball on the problem.
Police Minister Lisa Neville on Tuesday defended the Government’s handling of youth crime after the Federal Government on Monday said “African gang crime” was out of control in Melbourne because of lenient state policies.
The issue has become a priority for both major parties after a series of recent headline-grabbing crimes blamed on groups of young African men, including the trashing of an Airbnb property in Werribee, vandalism in Tarneit and a night of violence at St Kilda Beach involving dozens of youths.”
With home invasions and other crimes on the rise, it is time for Australians to conduct a fundamental rethink of personal security issues:
Data from Victoria’s Crime Statistics Agency, below, shows an over-representation of Sudanese-born and Kenyan-born offenders in some crime categories, proportional to their Victorian populations.
They also show a sharp rise in Sudanese-born offenders involved in armed robberies, from 20 in the 2014-15 financial year to 98 two years later.
However, the statistics also show that a Victorian is more than 25 times more likely to be seriously assaulted by someone born in Australia or New Zealand than someone born in Sudan or Kenya.
They are almost five times more likely to be the victim of an aggravated burglary committed by an Australian or New Zealand-born offender, than one born in Sudan or Kenya.
According to Census figures, people born in Sudan make up about 0.1 per cent of Victoria’s population. The Kenyan-born population in Victoria is about the half the size of the Sudanese-born population.
Serious assault
Alleged offender’s country of birth 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
Australia 1,699 1,576 1,462
New Zealand 87 75 91
Sudan 29 50 45
Kenya 4 10 15
Aggravated burglary
Alleged offender’s country of birth 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
Australia 182 504 540
New Zealand ≤ 3 6 28
Sudan 20 53 98
Kenya ≤ 3 17 20
Non-aggravated burglary
Alleged offender’s country of birth 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
Australia 2,166 1,670 1,773
New Zealand 32 33 69
Sudan 57 29 54
Kenya 10 ≤ 3 17
Motor vehicle theft
Alleged offender’s country of birth 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
Australia 2,021 2,211 2,078
New Zealand 63 141 151
Sudan 81 80 81
Kenya 5 35 21
Sexual offences
Alleged offender’s country of birth 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
Australia 317 379 361
New Zealand ≤ 3 8 ≤ 3
Sudan 5 9 6
All other countries 31 27 21
Source: Crime Statistics Agency (Victoria)
Food for thought indeed, if we are still allowed to think in this country.