What the left/islam wants for the world Part1
Interview with police officers: "Many areas are TOTALLY lost"
Domestic

10 september 2022

kl. 14.16

Before the election in Sweden, Samnytt interviewed police officers around the country about how they see the crime trend and several years of politicians' promises about investments.
- The police no longer have the monopoly on violence. We lost control a long time ago. The only thing the police do is put out fires temporarily. If even that. There are many areas that are already completely lost and the measures we take are often just a game for the gallery, says a policeman.

The Police Association has conducted a survey among its members concerning which issues they think are most important among the politicians' proposals against the growing crime rate in the country.

It appears from the survey that the members see the quantity discount in case of penalties as the most important issue. A whopping 73 percent of members want to see the quantity discount removed so that longer sentences become real. Furthermore, many want to see the abolition of automatic release after two-thirds of the sentence and the abolition of the "youth discount".

Facsimile Police Association
The investigation was carried out by Novus on behalf of the Police Association. The result is based on 1,438 interviews between August 5 and August 18, 2022. The response rate was 31 percent.

"The police have lost control - we only put out fires"
Samnytt has recently been in contact with three police officers who all have many years of experience within three of the country's larger police regions. Due to the policemen's fear of reprisals from managers within the Police Authority - such as having their career ruined for airing critical views about the work - requests for anonymity have been made. We therefore call the people Henrik, Niklas and Patrik.

We see that gang violence is growing throughout the country and is also establishing itself in smaller towns. Record number of shootings and deaths. A policeman was murdered last summer. As a police officer, how would you describe the current development?

- The trend of violence is going straight in the wrong direction. We have laws and courts in Sweden that mean that criminals do not even expect to be caught because it is almost impossible to get a conviction without a plaintiff, says Henrik.

- Unfortunately, it is a trend that continues in the same direction as before, namely that it will increase. There is nothing in the police's work that I see should be able to change that fact, says Niklas.

- The police no longer have the monopoly on violence. We lost control a long time ago. The only thing the police do is put out fires temporarily. If even that. There are many areas that are already completely lost and the measures we take are often just a game for the gallery, says Patrik.


What do you see for Sweden in 10 years with current developments?

- We see people shooting at the police, most recently in Rinkeby when a person on an electric scooter shot at a check. If the consequences continue to be absent and there are no penalties, the police profession will soon be significantly more vulnerable. We will have worse violent crimes and it will happen in more open places where third parties will be affected, says Henrik.

- I can keep things short. The point for when it was run has already been passed. I would say that respect for the police in general has been eroded. By that I don't mean that you should be afraid of the police, but mutual understanding and that kind of respect I think is a minimum. Many who have come here have zero understanding of that kind of respect and consideration for other people. That you throw stones at someone who, with all the right in the world, is just speaking his mind. That one takes the right to rape, rob or humiliate. It's extremely rare to hear that a Somali mother has been humiliated, robbed, peed on and raped, says Niklas.

- People must start to open their eyes and see what is happening to our country. Considering how the development has looked in the last ten years, I am genuinely concerned about what kind of country Sweden will be in ten years. The negative spiral is going so fast that from the police's side we can't catch up and there is a big risk that we won't catch up, says Patrik.


Politicians have for several years talked about major investments in the justice system with, among other things, more police officers (police employees) and changes to the law. What do you feel as a police officer about the improvements in their talk and promises in recent years?