Is the police department in Sweden like, federalized or something? Here it's all local (city/town based, with county sheriffs), though state based police do exist. Federal 'police' as they exist are the FBI, Immigration Customs Enforcement, ATF.
Just seems like a really strange thing to weaken police forces like that. No wonder Sweden has so many problems with immigrants, there's nobody around to enforce the law if they cause problems.
To a degree, yes. It has been since large reforms took place in the 1960's. Before then, it was carried out by more localised districts. While this hampered co-operation and joint administration, of course, it ment that the communes that could muster a local police force did so. What has happened recently is that it has been federalised and centralised further, into large regional blocks, all run centrally from the capital administration.
A federal police corps makes sense on paper for a small country. However, countries tend to be much bigger than they look on paper, as it were. The United States of America is, of course, a very large country with very specialised needs throughout the different states and counties, but the principle is the same: it would hamper police work greatly if they were all run and managed from Washington D.C., with lesser insight in those particular local needs than necessary.
Of course, this is a large part why there are severe immigration difficulties. The reason why there is a large, growing segment of illegal residents in the country (many of whom commit crime, many of whom are victims to crime) is because the police are not capable of apprehending and deporting them reliably. That, coupled with the much too lenient sentences produced by the courts (sometimes fuelled by misguided passion than concerns for safety, seems to be the trend), has contributed greatly to the difficulties. Along, of course, with the strange aversion of recent years amongst the elected governments to exorcise authority. Well, well...
would you say the country has stockholm syndrome
Heh. Yes, to a degree, a lot of local potentates have been far too eager over the years to listen wholeheartedly to plans from the capitol. One thing to note is that the Stockholm Syndrome is somewhat of a misunderstanding. The kidnap-victims of that case (a botched bank robbery) were not particularly sympathetic towards the robbers, as much as they were unsympathetic to how the police disregarded their safety. The idea that they effectively joined sides with the robbers is apocryphical, but a good story always endures. It makes the analogy far more apt, in a manner of speaking.
Catalonia is a fascinating series of events. One worries, but it is terribly intriguing. At this point, it is difficult to blame the Catalonians for wanting to manage their own affairs. They really ought to have been given a better lot than this.
Perhaps Geatish independence could also be an idea? Dare we dream?
Noting good comes of drawing lines between people. We should be coming together and helping each other not carving out everyone's own little bit of us and them.
It was in jest, naturally. That idea would be impossible, unprecedented and quite foolish.
Nonetheless, I disagree. If it would work, it would be fantastic if mankind could and would join together into a greater whole, a global state, perhaps beyond, that worked together for the better of everyone. This, however, rarely happens. And when a region is treated poorly and not given its fair share of the agreement, it is no wonder that it would rather be alone than in bad company. Further, I believe a degree of lines will always be necessary, as long as there are men who will not play nicely, and take more and give less than their share. It is an ideal, one worth contemplating but one that would not survive its construction; it is much too cracked to stand.
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