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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: 2) by arslan on Monday February 26 2018, @10:26PM (3 children)

    by arslan (3462) on Monday February 26 2018, @10:26PM (#644261)

    Ummm.. in the article in the very first link.

    first this...

    most violence in Sweden can’t be linked to asylum seekers

    then this...

    Instead economic stagnation in immigrant communities that formed decades ago has resulted in intergenerational poverty, which has in turn fueled the proliferation of street gangs.

    So yea, it is just a debate in time period - at least based on the claims of that article. The new FOBs aren't doing it, but the FOBs from a few decades ago are.

    Personally, I'm not surprised. Poverty tends to lead folks to crime especially where options for digging themselves out of the hole are limited and the only helping hand offered are from incumbent criminals. Mass immigration tends to lend itself to folks banding together or forging alliances to increase their survival resilience in an alien environment. One plus one equals two - gangs.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:10AM (#644390)

    Key point there, "the only helping hand offered are from incumbent criminals." So are you arguing that we should provide more services to immigrants? Maybe help them succeed in their new home?

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @02:46AM (#644412)

      Because Sweden clearly isn’t doing enough... she was asking for it!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @03:58AM (#644452)

    > So yea, it is just a debate in time period - at least based on the claims of that article. The new FOBs aren't doing it, but the FOBs from a few decades ago are.

    If you dig deeper, it is not the poverty. It is the islam. It is common for some political parties to try blame it on economc inequities but the violence follows even among wealthier families.

    Over in the USA, look at the 911 moslems. They were all from wealthy, educated families to a man.