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I’ve had many talks to people about this situation and in short I see this as young people not having been fostered by the society. There are so many aspects to

I’ve had many talks to people about this situation and in short I see this as young people not having been fostered by the society. There are so many aspects to it, but there are no easy meme-solutions to this one: It’s really interesting to read and hear about the success of the cease-fire/GVI method developed in the US and led by David Kennedy. This work have started in Sweden as well, but you need a 7-10 year horizon here: https://youtu.be/wu00H7eeWVM https://youtu.be/wu00H7eeWVM Conceptually it’s a bit like parenting actually, which only makes sense. For it to be effective it will require cooperation between several instances - police, social services, school and others that might touch/interface with these kids. It needs to be worked agile (not Agile), if you nerds know what I mean! Second - city planning. These areas will have to be bulldozed down and rebuilt IMO. People need to be able to put pride and feel connected to where they live. Young men tend to really easily access “don’t give a shit”-mode. I know from experience... A part of this generation is probably lost already and we need to keep a 20 year lookout. Or we can just whine about wanting 16yo kids be sent to 10 year in prison and spread memes on facebook.

sebcat 7y ago
> These areas will have to be bulldozed down and rebuilt IMO They did that in the 60s-70s with a part of Malmö, an area called Lugnet. That area was improved because of the gentrification that followed. The people who used to live in Lugnet (mostly working class) moved out to newly built areas further out from the city center (Rosengård for example). Those areas are problematic today.
- jordanbeiber 7y ago
  Sure, but this is not what I’d like to see though. The “newly built” areas that you refer to are probably not something to be proud of, right? I’ve only been to Rosengard twice, and it felt just as awful as the old projects outside stockholm. This is going to cost a lot of money/resources to fix and I’d rather we spend money fixing the bugs in our society than build prisons and lock people up for decades. In the end the latter will not fix the underlying issues and instead work to segregate and compound issues further.

sebcat 7y ago

> These areas will have to be bulldozed down and rebuilt IMO They did that in the 60s-70s with a part of Malmö, an area called Lugnet. That area was improved because of the gentrification that followed. The people who used to live in Lugnet (mostly working class) moved out to newly built areas further out from the city center (Rosengård for example). Those areas are problematic today.

jordanbeiber 7y ago
Sure, but this is not what I’d like to see though. The “newly built” areas that you refer to are probably not something to be proud of, right? I’ve only been to Rosengard twice, and it felt just as awful as the old projects outside stockholm. This is going to cost a lot of money/resources to fix and I’d rather we spend money fixing the bugs in our society than build prisons and lock people up for decades. In the end the latter will not fix the underlying issues and instead work to segregate and compound issues further.