A serious minister of justice who announces that the monster must now be stopped, and the time has now come to take more drastic measures. For now enough is enough.
No one disagrees that something should be done.
It is obviously unsafe that sharp shots are being fired at a gas station in Aalborg on an otherwise peaceful Saturday evening – allegedly as part of a conflict between the two gangs, GT and A12. The two groups already have a lot on their consciences, and the development is heading in the wrong direction towards a real gang war.
Equally crazy is the fact that violent teenagers with Swedish passports take over Øresund with the aim of murdering designated victims.
It is a development that no one wants.
– You must be able to walk safely on the street with your children without fear of ending up in the middle of a gang conflict with shootings and explosives. It doesn’t belong anywhere. Not at all in Denmark, writes Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard on Facebook, and announces yet another round of measures against organized crime.
He is right that it does not belong in Denmark.
Unfortunately, it is just hard to hope that the politicians at Christiansborg can change much about the sad state of affairs.
It is not even a year since the same government presented a gang package. In September last year, the government came up with gang package number four – the first came 14 years earlier – and even then the aim was to make life difficult for the criminal gangs.
If the intention of the four gang packages we have received so far was to get the gangs off the streets and the members either out of the country, into jobs or prison, then it can easily be seen that they were hardly as effective as hoped. At least the gangs are not gone, and the only way the packages can be said to have worked is that it could have been worse.
And yes, it could easily have been worse.
We could have had Swedish conditions, where up to 30,000 young people are so-called gang-related, and where parts of the formerly so peaceful brotherland beyond are affected by violence, explosions, killings and stray shots to an extent no one would have thought possible a handful of years ago. After all, Danish politicians – especially the Danish People’s Party – must be praised for the fact that we have not ended up like Sweden. Until now.
Now the politicians’ task is to ensure that we do not end up in the same place as the Swedes in the future either – and not in a similar place either.
The task is not easy, and of course it will be tempting for Christiansborg to simply comply with the police’s requests for access to increased digital surveillance – including automatic facial recognition. If the politicians choose to go that route, it should be with extremely careful steps. Surveillance is not good in a free society.
Conversely, we just have to state that – again – tightening and interventions are needed. We are long past the point where it makes sense to talk about increased social efforts.
Likewise, it is not very useful to talk about the ethnic origin of the gang members. They are here, most are Danish citizens, and repatriation is a solution model that is about as far from reality as believing that a teacher-facilitated dialogue-based circle should solve anything.
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