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Critical police: Sweden soon one large exposed area
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4 May 2022

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Peter Torstensson has worked as a police officer for over 30 years in various places in the country. Twenty years ago, he was a local police officer in the "vulnerable" immigrant area Rinkeby in Stockholm. Not only were the problems with crime less there then compared to now - today he sees the immigrant serious gang crime everywhere in the country. The whole of Sweden is moving towards being taken over by the gangs where the police and the democratic monopoly on violence are retreating. Peter is now sharply criticizing the country's politicians and the management of his own authority for allowing this development to continue.

Today, Peter Torstensson works in a police district in Dalsland. Like many other police officers, he sought to move away from the more soldier- and war-like workday that police officers in the metropolitan regions have to deal with. But the problems with serious immigration-related crime that were previously limited to mainly the big cities have today spread throughout the country. " For a few years I have seen things I recognize from the past, from my time in Rinkeby ," Peter writes in a debate article in Expressen.

The Easter weekend's Muslim and gang criminal Korah riots were not limited to 'vulnerable' areas in the big cities. The worst took place in what used to be, before the non-western mass immigration, calm and idyllic small Swedish towns. " The whole country is heading into the same problems as in our larger cities ," states Peter, who during his more than 30-year career as a police officer has seen the changes in society up close and been at the forefront of dealing with the new Sweden's criminal development.

"Swedish police humiliated like never before"
Even though Peter and his colleagues saw it coming, he believes that the Koran riots are historic in that " Swedish police were humiliated like never before " and regarding how clear it became that the police authority is no longer able to fulfill its mission to maintain law and order and protect democratic freedoms and rights. Part of the political establishment and the police management do not even have the will to do so.

" Apart from the rioters, the shadows are now falling heavily on the political establishment and the police leadership. What happened must be investigated and responsibility demanded "Peter demands and probably speaks for many more in the corps than himself and in addition a majority of the Swedish people."

The social services' efforts did not work
Peter tells when he, as part of a newly formed local police group in 1995, worked in the already then immigrant-dominated and crime-ridden Rinkeby on Järvafältet in northwest Stockholm. There had been riots and now the situation was to cool down.

Compared with today, however, it was a significantly smaller group of immigrant youths who were responsible for the majority of the crimes and violence. Peter and his colleagues were able to call in a core squad of about 30 people who " committed crimes constantly and constantly ".

Then as now, the socio-economic explanation model was prevalent, but Peter and his colleagues quickly discovered that "the efforts of the social services did not work ". But when the police in 2001 compiled a list of the lifestyle criminals they felt needed to be marked and closely monitored in Rinkeby, it became " an heated debate in the media ". That was not allowed to be done, it was called from a left-liberal political point of view.

The savings on the police have had consequences
Then as now, the police also struggled with underfunding. Like many other core tasks such as care, nursing and schooling, the police authority had felt savings and cuts as the migration and integration budget areas devoured an increasing share of the state budget and citizens' paid tax money.

" The police economy was tough even then," Peter explains, describing a police management that even then was not receptive to arguments and criticism from police officers in the external service who saw the real reality beyond the desks in the police station. The result of that misunderstanding, the lack of resources and the increasing violence of immigrants was " more and more people sought refuge and in the end not many of us remained ".