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Crime and foreign born residents in Sweden
While research confirms individuals with an immigrant background are overrepresented in Swedish crime statistics, criminologists and official authorities attribute these disparities primarily to socioeconomic inequalities, residential segregation, and marginalization, rather than ethnicity itself.
Official studies from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) detail the statistical breakdown of crime rates, the impact of socioeconomic factors, and the nature of the offenses:
Statistical Representation
Suspect Rates: A comprehensive Brå study on registered offenders found that 8.0% of foreign-born individuals and 10.2% of individuals born in Sweden with two foreign-born parents were suspected of a crime. This compares to 3.2% for native-born Swedes with native-born parents.
Age Distribution: Researchers note that a significant portion of this disparity is driven by demographic differences. Overrepresentation often drops or normalizes across successive generations once factors like age distribution are factored in.
Crime Types: Overrepresentation varies significantly by crime category. Individuals with an immigrant background are more often registered in relation to certain violent offenses or drug-related crimes, but show lower or proportionate rates for others, such as economic or white-collar crimes
Sweden looks into the abyss
The Scandinavian nation of 10.6 million people is facing a national crisis because of its failure to successfully integrate record numbers of immigrants.
There was a time when Sweden was looked upon by American liberals as an inspirational example of the Scandinavian welfare state. Although Europeans were less impressed, even the country’s immediate neighbors tended to, grudgingly, accept Sweden as a senior brother.
After staying out of World War II, Sweden had evolved into a high-performing export-oriented economy, based on a stable parliamentary democracy and social consensus. The country had top-notch health care and education. It enjoyed social and gender equality, had low crime rates and little ethnic conflict. While grounds remain for optimism about some of these indicators, especially in the industrial sector, most have been transformed beyond recognition.
Present-day Sweden carries the dubious distinction of having the highest rate of gangland killings in Europe. It boasts the lowest average age of serious offenders, with children in their low teens being arrested for murder. Increasing segments of suburbs are officially classified as “especially vulnerable areas,” where it is “hard, bordering on impossible” for the police to operate. In layman’s terms, these are no-go zones, where local clans rule and where first responders will not enter without flak jackets and police escort.
An early warning was provided in 2017 when United States President Donald Trump made a quip about rioting in Sweden: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this!” Who indeed? At the time, such comments were met with disdain and ridicule. Today, it is not so funny anymore.
Sweden has transitioned from being a model of inspiration to becoming a warning example. As gangland violence is spreading across borders, its Scandinavian neighbors experience growing fears of ending up in what is known in Denmark as the “Swedish condition.”
Defying an old taboo, the Swedish government has called on the military to assist the police. It has even come to the point where the governor of the Bank of Sweden, Erik Thedeen, tells the Financial Times that the growing problem of shootings and bombings is so serious that it risks damaging the country’s long-term economic growth. Given the negative impact that a statement of this kind will have on markets, it is not to be taken lightly. Central bank governors weigh their words very carefully.
Stefan Hedlund
Alarming rise in youth crime in Sweden - Young people increasingly involved in criminal networks
Sweden has a very high homicide rate compared to other European countries. In 2021, 41 men aged 15–29 were killed, equating to 42 men per million inhabitants in the corresponding age group. According to the Global Study on Homicide, the number of victims of fatal violence across Europe during the same year was 28 (Brå 2024). There is no clear reason why homicides have increased more in Sweden than in other countries, other than that organized crime is on the rise.
Recruitment of young people
Studies show that a large percentage of local criminal networks actively recruit young people under the age of 18 to their cause. It has become more common for established criminal actors to exploit children and adolescents not only for drug-related crime but also for carrying out violent and risky crimes such as shootings, explosions or assassinations. This is clearly borne out by the statistics on shootings leading to injury or death, where the share of suspects under the age of 18 has rapidly grown over the last five years. In 2019, the number of under-18s suspected of an involvement in a shooting leading to injury or deaths was nine; by mid 2024, this had risen to 29 (Figure 2).
Serious crime among children and adolescents
Both suspects and victims of homicide by firearm are becoming younger as more and more children and adolescents become involved in criminal networks in Sweden. In the 15-20 age group, the number of suspects involving murder, manslaughter and assault with a fatal outcome in 2014 was 34. By 2023, that number had increased four-fold to 167 – a 391% increase over 2014. For the over-21 age group, the increase was significantly lower at 37% (table 1).
The vast majority of suspects are boys and young men, although the share of girls and young women seems to be rising. In 2023, 21 of the 167 murder suspects under the age of 20 were girls, rising from three in 2022 and eight in 2021 (Brå, Crime statistics).
In general, criminal activity increases during adolescence, peaks in early adulthood, and declines after that. The same pattern is also evident among members of criminal networks. According to the Swedish Police Authority, the number of individuals deemed active in criminal networks is 14,000. Around 1,700 children and adolescents under 18 are considered active members of a criminal network, accounting for 13% in total (Swedish Police Authority 2024).
Government strategy against organised crime
Crime prevention is one of the government’s current priorities. Sweden’s first comprehensive national strategy against organised crime was adopted in 2024 (Ministry of Justice 2024a). It aims to bring together a broad range of actors, including the private sector and civil society, to combat crime at national, regional and local levels. This includes a review of the criminal code, especially those provisions relating to weapons offenses. The police's powers to stop and search individuals on the street and to conduct house searches are to be strengthened.
Institutional forms of care for those under the age of 18 who have been directed to enter into care are being reviewed, too. In Sweden, children under the age of 14 are legal minors and thus cannot be convicted of a crime. Young people aged 15 to 17 can exceptionally be given a custodial sentence for serious crimes. Adults aged over 18 can be sentenced according to standard sentencing regulations, although special juvenile sanctions may be handed down to those under 21.
Overall, the government’s strategy against organized crime mainly centres on repressive policies, for which there is considerable public support.
Government strategy on social crime prevention
Countering and fighting crime is an important task, and early interventions to prevent crime are central. Besides its strategy against organized crime, the government is also focusing on social crime prevention. Here the focus is on preventing children and young people from becoming involved in criminal networks and other crimes in the first place, as well as ensuring that those who do commit crimes leave that world behind. The social crime prevention strategy includes both broad and early measures, including crime prevention efforts in schools, strengthening parental responsibility, giving social services better pathways to support children and young people, and preventing recidivism (Ministry of Justice 2024b).
Most actions – both repressive and preventive efforts – focus on boys and young men from socially disadvantaged areas, many of whom are from the immigrant community.
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27.01.2025 / Tiina Ekman, Senior Analyst of the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (MUC)
Em Tower Hamlets, facções rivais da Liga Awami do Reino Unido entraram em conflito aberto
O CAOS entrou em erupção em Tower Hamlets quando as facções rivais da Liga Awami do Reino Unido entraram em conflito aberto numa reunião local da câmara municipal, como as imagens mostram. Isto é aquilo em que a política britânica local se tornou em 2026. Desordem. Interrupção. Guerra faccional acontecendo nessas comunidades.
FIRST READING: He's Canada's number one author, and he's leaving Canada for safety reasons
Gad Saad said constant Montreal death threats ultimately proved untenable.
At the precise moment that his book Suicidal Empathy is topping world bestseller charts, prominent Canadian academic Gad Saad has announced he is permanently leaving Montreal for the United States, citing escalating threats to his personal safety. In a May 12 appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Saad said he had accepted a post at the University of Mississippi. He said repeated death threats had made it untenable for him to continue as a marketing professor at Concordia University.
“I’m now leaving in large part because it became difficult for me, if not impossible, to be a high-profile Jewish professor who supports the right of Israel to exist,” he said. Saad confirmed the move in a Victoria Day social media post, thanking Concordia “for the complete freedom that I was granted to pursue any research stream and any professional endeavour that I desired.”
He added, “I did face some difficulties over the past few years stemming from the unfolding realities in Montreal but I walk away with some sadness (I’m sentimental).” Concordia University has long been a focal point of anti-Israel radicalism. As far back as 2002, an anti-Zionist riot at the school prevented a planned appearance by Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu, who is now prime minister.
More recently, the university was the scene of a November 2024 anti-Israel riot that saw the school’s main lobby dominated by masked mobs calling for Intifada and charging lecture halls to interrupt classes with bells and shouted slogans.
Saad told Joe Rogan that in 2017, online threats had forced him to follow a safety protocol in which he had to be escorted by security while on campus — and the doors of his classrooms locked to keep out potential assailants. I would lecture, I would be ushered out, my wife would be waiting for me and I would let out a deep sigh, ‘Thank God I survived another week,’” he said.
In 2022, Saad said he was walking with his nine-year-old son when a man asked him if he was Gad Saad, to which he replied that he was. As Saad told Rogan, “then he kind of composes himself to deal with the hatred he feels and he goes ‘I’m not going to do anything to you out of respect for your son today.’” Shortly afterwards, Saad took leave from Concordia in order to accept a post with the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi.
Saad told Rogan he is in the United States on a work visa, but hopes to obtain permanent residency and ultimately citizenship. “Maybe we can turn the Saads into Americans,” he said. Saad’s departure marks the second time in 16 months that an influential Canadian academic has left Canada for the United States, blaming local political conditions for hounding them into exile.
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