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Home Secretary Damberg: Devastating Culture of Silence
Of: Christoffer Nilsson, Mattias Sandberg
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52 unsolved murders in five years in Stockholm, which the police link to criminal circles.
This is shown in Aftonbladet’s “Networks” review.
– We need to find new methods, not less new tools for the police, but also to break the devastating culture of silence, says Interior Minister Mikael Damberg (S).
In Aftonbladet’s “Networks” review, we have mapped unsolved murders in Stockholm that the police link to criminal settlements.
During the 2015-2019 five-year period, there are 52 murder victims, mainly young men. Here you can read the full survey.
Interior Minister Mikael Damberg (S) has followed Aftonbladet’s review and says that murders in criminal settings are “difficult to investigate”.
What do you say to family members who lack answers?
– That we are making a large investment in the police and the judiciary now. In 2021 alone, the police will receive an additional 1.9 billion SEK and will increase by 10,000 new police officers by 2024. This is an unprecedented investment. No other large state authority is growing the way the Police Authority is now.
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Interior Minister Mikael Damberg (S).
“Anonymous witnesses”
Damberg says the government has given the police several new tools.
– One of the most important, of which I am very proud and of which the police have been talking for 20 years, is the secret reading of data. Which means that the police today have the opportunity to break into mobile phones, read encrypted information about serious crimes. This is the kind of tool the police need to solve these types of murders.
A recurring problem in many murder investigations is a pervasive culture of silence, where few dare to testify.
When asked what is the most effective way to tackle that problem, Damberg says it is a “difficult subject”, which refers both to the long-term presence where the police build relationships in vulnerable areas.
But also new laws.
An investigation of witnesses is underway there, which will present its proposal in May.
– They will present proposals on crown witnesses, they will watch anonymous witnesses, they will propose how to toughen witness protection, support for witnesses, but also how to dramatically increase the punishment for those who commit abuses in a trial as it is called, that is. say witnesses threaten, says Damberg and continues.
– But in the long term, I still believe that it is the close and local presence of the police that builds trust and therefore also breaks the culture of silence in the long term.
Acted too slow
Aftonbladet’s “Networks” review includes 676 people that the police link to criminal networks.
Of them, 36 are minors, the youngest are 13 years old.
Most are considered to be boys, while some have already been assigned larger roles in criminal networks. In several cases, social efforts have been stopped by parents.
At the beginning of the year, a new penalty was introduced, in which young people who commit serious crimes can be sentenced to a curfew with a foot shackle on weekends at night and at night.
– It’s a very clear way to toughen regulations for youth who have finished badly, says Damberg.
“We have a growing segregation in Sweden”
According to the Interior Minister, Sweden has been too slow to fight criminal networks.
– We have had increasing segregation in Sweden, with areas that have almost had to live their own little parallel life, and where the state has not been sufficiently present. It has cost money that these criminal gangs have been bitten in various places in Sweden. But I am absolutely convinced that when we now gather forces, not only the police but other authorities, against them, it will have an effect.
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