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Swedish police with new strategy - drop investigating serious crimes
Speisa ^ | 3/25/2017

Posted on 03/25/2017 10:47:34 PM PDT by george76

Investigators have been ordered to investigate traffic violations instead of other more serious crimes, as "Project Alcatraz" has been launched. Police now fear even more crime.

Swedish police are becoming less able to solve crimes, which is becoming an embarrassment for the national police chief, Dan Eliasson, who apparently now fears for his job.

There is growing internal criticism against the police management, which is believed to engage in a "pinnjakt" to keep Eliasson as the national police chief, writes DN.

The National Police in Stockholm, this week launched "Project Alcatraz," which goal is to increase the percentage of solved crimes. Critics, however, argue that the project is just a "pinnjakt" that encourages officers to focus on the simple crimes like drugs, fraud and driving offenses, in order to improve the statistics.

- The sole purpose is to deliver positive figures, so that the Chief of Police Dan Eliasson doesn't lose his job, says an experienced investigator to DN.

The investigator has been ordered that from now on to investigate traffic violations instead of more serious crime.

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That Dan Eliasson never was a cop, yet he was put in charge of the whole thing, increasingly shows.

(Excerpt) Read more at speisa.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armedcitizen; banglist; concealedcarry; donutwatch; leo; police; rkba; selfdefense; sweden; swedishpolice
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1 posted on 03/25/2017 10:47:34 PM PDT by george76
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Until foreign corpses go without investigation, the problems will continue.


2 posted on 03/25/2017 10:52:51 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: george76

The more I read these kinds of reports, the more I remember Atlas Shrugged.


3 posted on 03/25/2017 10:59:29 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: george76

Dan Eliasson’s CV (resume) lists out government employee and lawyer. He’s been the national police commissioner for three years.

Other jobs? For a while, he was the chief of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. He also did a couple of years with the Justice Ministry. For a brief while, he was the acting chief of the Swedish Security Service, and for three years head up the chief’s job of Swedish Migration Agency.

Police background? None. He appears to be some odd-jobs character that the politicians pull out and shuffle into place.

One should note....he did have a brief entertainment career...with a punk rock band in the late 1970s. Their big hit, which made the national scene was “**cking in Bangkok”. Made the national charts in Sweden in 1979.

It would almost seem like they picked Dan for the job because they knew he’d screw it up....one way or another.


4 posted on 03/25/2017 10:59:51 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: george76

Project Head-in-the-Sand will solve all those pesky little problems.
Why haven’t we tried this method in the USA?


5 posted on 03/25/2017 11:24:01 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: george76

There is an upside to this.

Perhaps some there know and passed this as a way to solve the problem.


6 posted on 03/25/2017 11:27:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lee martell

We did. Remember the Carter administration?

CC


7 posted on 03/25/2017 11:36:47 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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Here’s an idea sweden- just do away with police altogether- because that’s what yer headed fer anerways- Then cover your eyes, ears, and mouths and declare “Crimes? What Crimes? We don’t have any crimes”

Is sweden run by idiots or something?


8 posted on 03/26/2017 12:11:12 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: george76

David Dinkins tried that.
It worked SO well then too!
/ Obvious sarc


9 posted on 03/26/2017 12:40:21 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: george76

Well, now we know why everyone looked away when Hitler rose...


10 posted on 03/26/2017 1:26:35 AM PDT by lavaroise
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There is growing internal criticism against the police management, which is believed to engage in a "pinnjakt" to keep Eliasson as the national police chief, writes DN. [...] Critics, however, argue that the project is just a "pinnjakt" that encourages officers to focus on the simple crimes like drugs, fraud and driving offenses, in order to improve the statistics.

I believe that the most-fitting English translation would be "snipe-hunt" - or perhaps simply "diversion."

Regards,

11 posted on 03/26/2017 2:11:15 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: george76

Its like the New York Board of Regents dropping the literacy requirement for teacher certification.


12 posted on 03/26/2017 2:34:29 AM PDT by plangent
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To: Bob434

The Swedes aren’t stupid.

But they are insane.


13 posted on 03/26/2017 3:01:51 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: george76

OMG, Europe is lost! How will we save ourselves?


14 posted on 03/26/2017 3:17:42 AM PDT by tjd1454
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A good police strategy is to hide in the basement of police headquarters. Even better is to move to Iceland.

15 posted on 03/26/2017 4:36:22 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
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To: george76

Worked in NYC.


16 posted on 03/26/2017 4:54:41 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: InvisibleChurch

IKR! More than brilliant, it was prophetic.


17 posted on 03/26/2017 5:41:59 AM PDT by softengine
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To: george76

This is the exact inverse of the “broken windows” policing theory, where minor crimes such as turnstile jumping are prosecuted to keep community respect for law and order from deteriorating.


18 posted on 03/26/2017 6:33:34 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: george76

Rent out the Islamic ghettos for live fire combat in cities training.


19 posted on 03/26/2017 6:41:46 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: george76

Trump was right, again.


20 posted on 03/26/2017 6:59:01 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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