GANG PROBLEMS IN DENMARK AND SWEDEN

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Understanding Gangs. This podcast examined street and prison
gang structure and activity in the United States from the
perspective of law enforcement academics and former gang members. Let's
get started.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
I never thought i'd be reading a story from Denmark
and Sweden about this. Denmark's Peter Hommelguard have said that
gangs have hired young sweden men to commit crimes in
Denmark at least twenty five times in the last couple
of months, in part because Swedish law law imposes lighter
penalties from miners who commit serious crimes. This happens in

(00:49):
a lot of countries. Several of the people who orchestrate
this reckless and violent crime are hiding under warmer skies,
and of course this is completely unacceptable, he told the
private conference on Wednesday. He said we're often in the
Greater Middle East, but didn't name any specific country where
they were coming from. One of Sweden's two major gangs
is led by Swedish Turkish dual national who lives in Turkey,

(01:12):
but who refuses to extradite him. Swedish and Danish media
say that gang is involved in deadly feud. One of
the main criminal gangs in Denmark loyal to Familia, which
was banned two years ago. Sweden has grappled with gang
violence for years, while in Denmark police have also seen
violence between gangs, but on a lesser scale. Now Sweden's
grappling with violence for gangs has been about eight years.

(01:34):
Ever since well about eight years now Denmark. Gang is
in Denmark have also about about eight years. Last year,
Swedish police noted an increase in the number of teenagers
under eighteen who were recruited to carry out killings for
hire because they did not face the same police controls
as adults. In Sweden, they would tighten its laws. They

(01:55):
need to tighten its laws, noting the miners who are
convicted of murder and Sweden are placed in juvenile facilities.
They can face up to sixteen years in prison. In Denmark,
this is where one of the head people of law
enforcements stay over there. In Sweden. The two also vowed
to crack down an online gang activity, with Stromer, one
of the heads of the police, saying that leading figures

(02:15):
in the criminal networks order, murders and bombings totally out
in the open online. Earlier, humble Guard has said that
solutions could include changing Danish law to allow facial recognition
technology and deploying better software to monitor encrypted messages. So
a big problem over there. This is an ABC News
story just from a few days ago. Crazy stuff. Denmark

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and Sweden vowed to hunt down gang leaders