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Police are searching for the men involved in a dramatic highway robbery in Stockholm on Tuesday night, in which one car was stolen at gunpoint and an armoured transport vehicle was rammed.
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If the Sour Apples need to kick someone to feel better, I suggest the political side of Swedish justice--that is indeed a joke.
The Swedish police blow off what they consider minor crimes; although they are major to the victims. They manipulate statistics by not reporting criminal complaints or mislabeling them. They seem to be fairly competent at dealing with some murders, probably because they usually assume that one member of a couple killed their mate and they label everything else as gang related. They are far behind the curve because, as occassional says, they cannot begin to comprehend the mentality and mindset of these imported gangsters. They are village police caught in modern times and ill-prepared and ill-trained for the job. In some defense of your argument and the police, they are stymied by a justice system that is haphazard and, basically, an old boy network.
OT: As soon as the threat has automatic firearms the regular police shouldn't be in the lead anyway. There should be special teams or the army chasing these guys down, there should have been military grade helicopters in the air within 5 minutes of the report that an armored vehicle became the target of an assault. It is absolutely pathetic and a complete disgrace that these guys managed to get away. The whole reason these things keep occurring much more frequently lately is because the criminals keep getting away instead of ending up in a morgue.