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The amount of gang violence in Sweden has exploded in the last few years, with shootings and bombings.
Overall crime is down, but the risk of being shot or blown up is higher in Sweden compared to a few years ago.
Sadly most victims of this violence are young men with roots from outside of Europe, many second generation immigrants, which plays right into the hands of the far right.
I want the violence to stop, I just don't think the far right have the solution, however give it a few more years and people will be ready to try anything, even fascism. I think.
Edit: Fixed a damn autocorrect.
The issues are similar to the issues elsewhere: Sweden informally segregated migrants from Swedish-born people, in housing projects, in lower-paying jobs etc. We need to fix the social situation (and not just for migrants) to lower crime rates for the future.
What the right (including the center-right) is doing, i.e. worsening social outcomes for most people and often times intentionally hurting integration in general society and in the labor market will only make crime rates go up.
Absolutely agree about improving the social situation for a lot of people who are struggling, but I also think there's something else. I don't know what. Healthcare is free, dental care is free, education is free and you get paid to attend school. Second generation migrants have opportunities their parents likely didn't, and still they get recruited into gangs and kill or get killed.
I don't know what the real problem is, nor how to solve it. I just don't think either the left (fix the social situation and the crime will stop) or the right (stop migration and the crime will stop) is correct. Or maybe they both are, but in a limited way? Maybe it's something else entirely?
Sweden is so cute, one bad thing happens and they think its bagdad lol.
Source: born & grew up there