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Sorry, but please state a source for that claim.

Now, I'm not much better, but from what I recall crime in general is going down - but there are some notable exceptions (gang crime related specifically).

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/533790/sweden-rate-of-cr...

Seems like it's flat/down over the last 10 years.

A quick look at the number of shootings over the past six years shows that the number of fatalities in shootings reached a new record in 2022. Moreover, a report published by the Swedish national council for crime prevention in 2021 found that Sweden was the only European country in which the number of fatal shootings per 100,000 inhabitant increased since 2000.

https://www.statista.com/topics/7088/crime-in-sweden/

Yep. But, not to be confused with overall crime rate (which my parent was referring to)! That's a very dangerous slide in facts.

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