Sweden’s prime minister on Thursday said that he’s summoned the head of the military to discuss how the armed forces can help police deal with an unprecedented crime wave that has shocked the country with almost daily shootings and bombings.
Getting the military involved in crime-fighting would be a highly unusual step for Sweden, underscoring the severity of the gang violence that has claimed a dozen lives across the country this month, including teenagers and innocent bystanders.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that he would meet with the armed forces’ supreme commander and the national police commissioner on Friday to explore “how the armed forces can help police in their work against the criminal gangs.”
America and Sweden are different places. Your ignorance and lack of perspective is making your worldview myopic. The Swedish police are largely unarmed and well trained, and despite the country’s best efforts, these people actively refused to integrate and the problem kept growing. It has now reached a point where the violence, crime, and the disrespect to Swedish culture, values, and law are not just threatening but actually harming the country’s social cohesion, stability, safety, and progress. This is something that should’ve been done a long time ago when the issues first started appearing.