I’ve had many talks to people about this situation and in short I see this as young people not having been fostered by the society. There are so many aspects to it, but there are no easy meme-solutions to this one:

It’s really interesting to read and hear about the success of the cease-fire/GVI method developed in the US and led by David Kennedy. This work have started in Sweden as well, but you need a 7-10 year horizon here:

https://youtu.be/wu00H7eeWVM

Conceptually it’s a bit like parenting actually, which only makes sense.

For it to be effective it will require cooperation between several instances - police, social services, school and others that might touch/interface with these kids.

It needs to be worked agile (not Agile), if you nerds know what I mean!

Second - city planning. These areas will have to be bulldozed down and rebuilt IMO. People need to be able to put pride and feel connected to where they live. Young men tend to really easily access “don’t give a shit”-mode. I know from experience... A part of this generation is probably lost already and we need to keep a 20 year lookout.

Or we can just whine about wanting 16yo kids be sent to 10 year in prison and spread memes on facebook.