{"id":346948,"date":"2018-02-06T00:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-police-in-malmo-now-armed-with-machine-guns-to-take-back-control\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T23:35:31","slug":"swedish-police-in-malmo-now-armed-with-machine-guns-to-take-back-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-police-in-malmo-now-armed-with-machine-guns-to-take-back-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Police in Malm\u00f6 Now Armed with Machine Guns to Take Back Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>As an antidote to the rampant criminality and attacks against law enforcement, at least two police stations in the city have chosen to ramp up security. Officers have been armed with Heckler &amp; Koch MP5 machine guns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police in Malm\u00f6 are currently doing quite a lot of operations against professional criminals,\u201d said Calle Persson, press officer for the police in southern Sweden. \u201cWe know from prior work of this kind that some criminals tend to carry out vengeance attacks. It\u2019s also a statement in some way: we want to show who\u2019s in charge.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Samtliga polishus i Malm\u00f6 bevakade av tungt bev\u00e4pnad polis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BNg3YgULRo\">https:\/\/t.co\/BNg3YgULRo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B5OBrW8Q2d\">pic.twitter.com\/B5OBrW8Q2d<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Sydsvenskan (@sydsvenskan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sydsvenskan\/status\/959906459311108097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to The Local Sweden, Roseng\u00e5rd, where a bomb was detonated outside of a police station, is among the 61 areas in the country that is defined as \u201cvulnerable\u201d and defined as \u201ca geographically defined area characterized by a low socio-economic status where criminals have an impact on the local community\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, according to data accumulated by Swedish newspapers Sydsvenskan and HD, Malm\u00f6 was the city with the most murders per capita in all of Scandinavia.<\/p>\n<p>Sydsvenskan writes: \u201cIn total, fatal violence in Sweden fell for a number of years in the early 2000s. The number of murders was well under 100 a year. But in 2015 the curve turned sharply upwards: 112 murders in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, as SVT reported in November 2017, looked to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/swedish-police-in-malm%C3%B6-now-armed-with-machine-guns-to-take-back-control\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an antidote to the rampant criminality and attacks against law enforcement, at least two police stations in the city have chosen to ramp up security. Officers have been armed with Heckler &amp; Koch MP5 machine guns. \u201cThe police in Malm\u00f6 are currently doing quite a lot of operations against professional criminals,\u201d said Calle Persson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}