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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @04:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @04:11AM (#644456)

    Instead of assigning blame like most of the other posts, how about a solution? Legalize the drugs and prostitution to take them out of the gang's hands. I'd bet money that would help in the long run. In the short run you might get more gang violence as they fight to try to keep control.

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  • (Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:30AM

    by cubancigar11 (330) on Tuesday February 27 2018, @06:30AM (#644515) Homepage Journal

    There was an article in The Economist around a decade ago, I think, discussing the difference between Germany and Sweden in the way tackled the problem of prostitution and how the results have been different. TL;DR - beginning the 90s feminists convinced the society that prostitution is a women's rights issue and something needs to be done. Germany chose to outlaw pimps but legalize voluntary prostitution but Sweden chose otherwise. The result was that Germany saw a huge increase in prostitution but Sweden saw otherwise. The article argued how Swedish approach was better.

    Today I learn that Sweden is having gang wars because of banning of prostitution and military has to get involved, one wonders if the German approach was, in fact, better. May be another decade :)