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The underlying problem in most cases (of youth violence across the world) is drug addiction. I recently spoke to someone who had to quit an overseas job and ret
by jeswin 2mo ago
The underlying problem in most cases (of youth violence across the world) is drug addiction. I recently spoke to someone who had to quit an overseas job and return home because his teenage son had started engaging in criminality, after a drug addiction problem at school. He was telling me how widespread the problem is, and how accessible drugs are to kids via online channels.
- alephnerd 2mo agoIn this specific case, the gang would not have existed if Sweden had stricter asylum laws and background checks in the 1980s-90s. Much of the Foxtrot Gang is associated with the PUK as much of the Kurdish community in Scandinavia is Sorani (Kirkuk-Sulaymaniyah-Kermanshah)
- UltraSane 2mo agoIt is strange that Sweden thought it was too peaceful and decided to import violent crime
- defrost 2mo agoPossibly to balance being one of the world's largest arms exporters?
- alephnerd 2mo agoThere's nothing wrong with asylum or immigration as long as it's also paired with vetting. The issue is, vetting is hard and most countries suck at doing background checks due to a lack of staff.
- UltraSane 2mo agoIt doesn't help if the decision to grant asylum becomes effectively irreversible.
- encom 2mo agoMany such cases. Denmark has no more room in its prisons. Opinions are shifting away from importing infinity third world migrants, and news media is now allowed to talk about it, but not enough to meaningfully shift votes in the last election, so it's going to be more of this for the forseeable future.
- mx7zysuj4xew 2mo agoYou mean drug prohibition
- jeswin 2mo agoNo. I mean synthetic drug addiction. I know where you're going with this, and I once supported what you're saying; but there's enough evidence now (with addictive substances) to say that accessibility is going to make things worse.
- danaris 2mo agoThe underlying problem in most cases of drug addiction is poverty, or lack of human connection and meaningful work. Yes, addiction has a physiological component in many cases...but people who are happy and fulfilled in their lives have a much, much easier time quitting highly addictive drugs than people who are poor, lonely, and disconnected.