Sweden used to be recognized for its tranquil, law-abiding inhabitants, but gang crime, gun violence, and explosives have long plagued the nation.
In 2022, Sweden broke the dismal European record for the most gunshot deaths in a calendar year, outpacing the other Nordic countries by a significant margin.
The nation’s police chief has written a scathing opinion piece in which he laments the “unprecedented levels” of organized crime and how it has grown more complicated and challenging to combat.
National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg bemoaned the complexity of crime and the difficulty in locating witnesses in a piece published in Swedish media.
“Formerly speaking to the police and testifying in court, accusers, witnesses, and offenders now seldom ever provide any information. This considerably increases the difficulty of the research. Finding more, more challenging evidence is frequently necessary for prosecution success, “added Thornberg.
The police force is now understaffed and underfunded, and Thornberg, a former director-general and head of the Swedish Security Service, urged for additional funding and officers. He also demanded that the authorities work more closely together and pass new laws to provide the force more powerful capabilities. He also suggested that the police’s mission needed to be adjusted in order for it to meet the new difficulties.
Gun violence, explosives, and gang criminality have long afflicted the once tranquil country. Sweden set the unfortunate European record for the most deadly gunshots in a calendar year in 2022 with 64. To put that into perspective, just eight gun-related fatalities were reported in neighboring Denmark in 2022 despite having a culture and economy that are basically similar.
Even though gunshots and explosions are frequently attributed to disputes between rival gangs, innocent spectators frequently get injuries, and venues sustain damage. Even schools are affected by the fights, and the government has produced instructions on how to handle them, which many have seen as “normalizing” gang violence.
The prevalence of second-generation immigrants among those who commit crimes, which are frequently crimes motivated by ethnicity, has been revealed by a variety of reports. For a long time, the authorities were reluctant to acknowledge this because it suggested that their integration policies had failed. After adopting a “open doors” policy for many years, Swedish authorities have finally reversed course. Additionally, according to the police, violent criminals have gotten younger over time, with many of them still being juveniles striving to establish credibility in gang culture.
Sweden had a surge of what the police perceived as retaliation crimes at the beginning of the year. As Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson ran particularly on a platform to combat organized crime, claiming to “straighten out Sweden,” the increase in violence and carnage that dominated the news throughout the Christmas and New Year holidays poses a challenge to the minority administration formed by the Moderates. Longer jail terms were promised by Kristersson in order to get gang members off the streets and discourage fresh recruits from entering the underworld. He also predicted a “paradigm change” in the criminal justice system. The eagerly anticipated turnaround has not yet happened.
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