jhomhenvhisst

Murders are down 50% from 1990s, and the number of victims of street violence is down 30% the last 5 years. But these numbers are not unique for Sweden. The one type of violence that is up is for organized crime. http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/antalet-mord-halverat-sedan... (list of references in swedish)

But yes, we have a very ineffective police force, everyone knows this. We have more police personnel then ever (huge increase the last years). But solved crimes are less, or the same.

Note also that we can't use self defense like in the US. It is impossible to get any kind of license for pepper spray, taser (cops not allowed either), guns, anything you can defend yourself with. Makes it easy to be a criminal in Sweden.

We had this in Sweden for a while. Absolutely no one cares, and i have never seen anyone asking for permission except on some government websites. Example, government: http://regeringen.se/ and police: http://polisen.se/ who have this huge cookie dialog over the whole page. In fact i think they store a cookie before i answer even. Crazy laws, made by politicians who don't understand how the web works.