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

More encryption panic, better get everyone's ID if they are online or have a phone. Because of course criminals won't use stolen IDs or phones, just like they always use IDs and register their guns.

Also note, dispute the chats and sites being encrypted the cops have managed to review enough of them to supposedly establish a trend RE women's behaviour asking to participate in violence. So clearly encryption isn't a real barrier to law enforcement. But better ban it anyway!

Since when are there Swede rappers? That is weird enough in itself.

What are you even trying to imply here? Rap has been a thing in Sweden for decades, what's weird about it?

I get that drugs are largely the issue, but these people live in a country with a laundry list of social welfare programs that most people could only dream of. Free healthcare, free education at all levels, and a boatload of economic support initiatives for people in poverty. They literally are living life on easy mode compared to the rest of the poor people in the world for the most part. Why do they turn to drugs in the first place? It clearly shouldnt be out of hopelessness for their situation…

We've been dealing with rising inequality in Sweden for the last ~50 years. We've also had large amounts of immigration, with these immigrants in many ways having become second class citizens, getting concentrated into the diminishing stock of social housing/slum lord-controlled areas. We also have an unusually restrictive policy against drugs, the sales of which then becoming one of the few lucrative options for someone growing up in a poor area.

It's similar motivations to what happens in the U.S - if you're poor, some of the only realistic options for making it big from your perspective is either a career in professional sports (see Zlatan Ibrahimovic) or drugs (see various gang bosses)

This whole situation is ridiculous. It seems like there is some underlying culture glorifying the violence that occurs in countries where people dont have any of what the Swedes have available to them. None of them need to deal drugs to survive, or commit acts of violence. None of them even need to be using drugs out of hopelessness for their future. Its like the equivalent of suburban American kids with college funds wanting to be gangbangers because they think its cool. Fucking stupid

It's not necessarily that they pursue these "careers" out of a need to fuel a drug addiction, although that may certainly become a motivation for maintaining it - along with the threat of violence if leaving.

Some of the largest consumers of drugs in Sweden are the richest people, having lots of money to spend on cocaine. Again, a similar situation to the U.S in many ways here.

I expect that this might me due to functional police and criminal investigation systems. Less functional countries, which are in the majority, will likely fail to find the right perpetrator, fail to report on it, blame the crime on the wrong person, ignore the crime, etc.

Those suburban kids emulate street gangs while the leaders of those street gangs emulate the fathers of those suburban kids in the corporate structure.