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Sweden: Suspect Apprehended After School Shooting

Sweden: Suspect Apprehended After School Shooting at Swedish School

Above: A police car in Sweden on Aug. 22, 2023. Image copyright: Wikimedia Commons

The Spin

Sweden has had an extremely distressing rise in violence in the last several years. Despite a large amount of reporting suggesting that a sizeable portion of the violent crime in the Nordic country is due to gang violence and illegal drugs, authorities have seemingly refused to acknowledge a correlation with Sweden's lenient immigration policies since 2015.

There are many factors behind Sweden's rise in violent crime, including poverty and lack of integration and opportunity for some marginalized groups. Xenophobic fear-mongering will do very little to help this issue. Instead, a more impactful step would be to increase the early intervention efforts to provide at-risk youth with support and resources.

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 95% chance that a terrorist attack in Sweden will cause at least one death before 2031, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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