“I had a case involving a 15-year-old girl recruited to shoot someone in the head,” Stockholm prosecutor Ida Arnell told AFP. “She was able to choose the type of mission she wanted, in other words, to aim at the guy’s door or his head. She chose the head.”
Sweden took in more refugees than it had infrastructure to help integrate with. Swedes are culturally insular so when there were friction points the Swedish reaction is pull back. This leads to isolation. That lead to ghettos and a perfect breading ground for crime and gangs. It’s mainly Kurds and Somalis pushing cocaine that fueling a turf war. Because of Swedens laws protecting minors the gangs have figured out that paying them for hits on rivals and their families had little penalty. This started in Denmark as their testing ground. Sweden is trying to pass laws which would effectively expel the minor and their families for these kinds of crimes, but it’s a reactionary policy which won’t solve the underlying problems. There’s no simple quick fix here.
To be clear, this was a choice. The amount of disinvestment since the 80s in social housing, schooling and other social programs has been truly remarkable.
This is largely bullshit in my experience - people use it as a convenient explanation for what can adequately be explained by other forces
There’s no intentional isolation on the part of immigrants as much as there’s a diminishing social housing stock/social housing being sold out to slumlords.
People don’t intentionally select high crime areas to live in - they are not given the option to live somewhere else.
Using kids for gang hits is common in other places as well, because kids get more lenient sentences in other places too. See the U.S for an example on this trend being present earlier in history.
100% agree. This started with Feldt’s “Framtid för Sverige” which started the shift towards privatization arguing that labor costs were unsustainable. Then deregulation of investment and real-estate markets in the 90s and finally the removal of arvsskatt (2004) and förmögenhetsskatt (2007) there were enormous leaps in wealth inequality at the same time as sapping the tax coffers which had built all the social programs it was known for.
I assume you’re implying racism. There’s absolutely latent racism in there as well. But even if you look like a Swede, speak swedish, but have an accent or dress in a way that stands out or break some of the other tenants of jantelagen people will steer away. People of non-european descent just have it 10x harder.
I wasn’t saying it was completely intentional, I was saying it was part of the insular nature of Swedes. If you’re talking about kommun housing then I agree, that’s procedural, but it does require someone who knows the process. But if you want to rent second-hand, you need to meet that person and if you’re not a Swede many people will require a Swede to vouch for you.
Its just new in the sense that it’s the first time for Swede to have experienced it.
I wasn’t primarily implying racism, but it’s probably part of the equation. I was moreso thinking about other forces mentioned in my reply, like the very large issue of complete housing market malfunction.
I get the feeling that this might be a more rural attribute, but that might be my personal experience just being different.
I think this is just another aspect of the housing crisis being the everything crisis - there’s no real need for second hand renting in a paradigm of complete housing abundance, as we had at the end of Miljonprogrammet.