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Early on Saturday morning, an alleged murder took place in the Holma district of Malmö. According to the Sydsvenskan newspaper, it is about a man in his 40s who was shot and killed in an apartment. This means that 43 people have died from gun violence in Sweden so far this year. It is a more fatal shooting than during all of last year.
– These are the effects of a job that was not done 10, 20, 30 years ago, says Linda H Staaf, head of the national intelligence unit of the police.
A large part of these The shootings are linked to organized crime and take place in what the police classify as vulnerable areas.
– It is very much an integration problem. It is about society as a whole withdrawing from these areas. Stores, authorities, and various social actors withdrew and abandoned residents ended, says Linda H Staaf.
According to Staaf, it paved the way for criminal actors to seize power in the areas, and there are many violent deals related to this happening today: power struggles, especially over the drug market in vulnerable areas, according to police.
Since 2016 for the Police Authority, on behalf of the government, the statistics of all shootings in the country, which in recent years have been at a high level. In 2018, there were the most fatal shootings, 45.
So far this year, with one month remaining in the year, there are at least 43 fatal shootings, and 2020 will likely be a record year in the negative.
This year it’s Stockholm County accounted for a growing proportion of fatal shootings. Almost half. This, from the police side, has been explained by the fact that the authority exerts increasing pressure on criminal actors, which in turn generates anxiety and an increase in serious violence among criminals.
According to Linda H Staaf, the police are also now working to try to return civil society to vulnerable areas, in order to curb the development of long-term violence.
– So this work must continue before we can consider that all areas are fully integrated, because there is a long way there. But we see positive trends. And an important part is that the police should be able to operate in the areas and pave the way for other social actors to establish themselves in the areas, he says.
