I agree with that comment, although I'm not sure that the reasons behind the statement are the same. My reasons/observations are that a) swedes tend not to think about "bad case", so if something does not go according to an optimistic plan - it sometimes comes as a great surprise for them; b) over the years police became more and more understaffed and undertrained, due to both population growth and too many police officers leaving the job. Both these issues were never addressed until (partly) very recently (with Moderates and KD wanting to get more police officers), so yes - this is self-inflicted, in the sense that swedish police force is still in 90s or early 2000s, while criminals evolved well into 201X.

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