on Wednesday, told DN that the police is considering to make its list of particularly vulnerable areas secret. The reason is that the representatives of the several member municipalities feel that it is stigmatizing.
Uppsala’s mayor Erik Pelling (P) says that for Gottsunda, it was ”devastating” to end up there. He argues that the district ”had a sharp negative stamp” instead of ”investments and construction of new homes”.
reasoning. Reasonably, it is the shootings, gängbrottsligheten and insecurity that scare traders and residential builder in the escape. Not that they are noticed.
the Fact is that the situation seems to have gotten better in several of the mentioned areas. The police have added resources and more stakeholders – property owner, school, municipality – has helped. The work has been focused, the interactions become better.
the Situation seems to have gotten better in several of the mentioned areas. The police have added resources and more actors have helped.
it suggests that It is important to clearly establish that there are serious problems to get everything from the police to local politicians to act.
More relevant is kriminologen Manne and Beat the objections. He points out that the criteria for identifying ”particularly vulnerable” areas and to differentiate them from those that only ”vulnerable” is fuzzy. And that the situation in the districts that fall in the latter category, and receive less resources, are liable to deteriorate.
a list of problem areas is that it should be a tool for improvement. For it is necessary that assessments are made on clear grounds, so it is possible to determine what should be there and if the situation becomes better or worse. In addition, the inclusion linked to the long-term action plans and resources to implement them.
To hemligstämpla the police list is a stupid idea. It would not benefit anyone – except possibly local councillors who are happy to avoid that their work ends up in a new sense of urgency.