Comment on Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood"

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GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Sweden took in more refugees than it had infrastructure to help integrate with.

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.

Swedes are culturally insular so when there were friction points the Swedish reaction is pull back. This leads to isolation.

This is largely bullshit in my experience - people use it as a convenient explanation for what can adequately be explained by other forces

This leads to isolation. That lead to ghettos and a perfect breading ground for crime and gangs.

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.

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.

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.

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