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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   
from the big-guns dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:MACP is pretty much outlawed in the U.S. Re:MACP is pretty much outlawed in the U.S. (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Monday February 26 2018, @09:09PM (1 child)

  by frojack (1554) on Monday February 26 2018, @09:09PM (#644199) Journal

  In spite of the name, the National guard is under State Government control when deployed as a police force in the US.
  Perhaps that's a distinction with out a difference in your mind.

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• Re:MACP is pretty much outlawed in the U.S. (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:52AM

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Tuesday February 27 2018, @01:52AM (#644377) Homepage Journal

  In spite of the name, the National guard is under State Government control when deployed as a police force in the US.
  Perhaps that's a distinction with out a difference in your mind.

  Actually. I think that, in this case, it is a distinction without a difference.

  IIUC, Sweden does *not* have a federal system like the US. As such, any National Guard analog in Sweden would have to be controlled by a central entity, since there is no Federal/state government separation in Sweden, as there is in the US.

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