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Swedish PM Does Not Rule Out Use of Army to End Gang Violence

posted by janrinok on Monday February 26 2018, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the big-guns dept.

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Sweden will do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end a wave of violence that has seen a string of deadly shootings, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-violence/swedish-pm-does-not-rule-out-use-of-army-to-end-gang-violence-idUSKBN1F629L

Sweden's murder rate is relatively low in international terms, but gang violence has surged in recent years and Swedes are worried that the police are unable to cope.

In 2016, the latest year for which official statistics are available, 106 people were murdered in Sweden, a country of 10 million.

But Swedish TV reported there were over 300 shootings, mostly in turf battles between gangs over drugs, protection rackets and prostitution.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @08:54PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @08:54PM (#644184)

    Please, read the whole linked article for a pretty good picture.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:47AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 28 2018, @05:47AM (#644990) Journal

    Law and order is likely to be a major issue in a parliamentary election scheduled for September with the populist, opposition Sweden Democrats linking public concern about the rising crime rate to a large increase in the numbers of immigrants.

    One political party in Sweden has 'linked public concern' with the issue with immigration. The populist party are anti-immigration, and so they will try to link any of Sweden's problems to immigration whenever they can, It does not make it so. There is no proven correlation between these particular crimes and the immigrants, although there are lots of other crimes that can be easily and justifiably linked to them. The problems that are causing concern are "drugs, protection rackets and prostitution", all of which existed before the current influx of immigrants.