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So, as far as I can tell, there are two issues at hand:
Many of the unsolved deadly shootings are committed to avenge other unsolved deadly shootings, and everyone involved are immigrants.
The police is pressured from above to not investigate deadly shootings too much because it'd put immigrants in a bad light.
A case can go unsolved if it is not proven. They have an idea of who the shooter is and why, so they have the network but if it is not proven beyond reasonable doubt they don't go to court with it and remains 'unsolved' in the books even if they have a good suspect and motive. Mostly because of homegrown "Omerta" as you put it.
I'm with southkraut on this do you have any reference to this. Because that would need to be fixed.
See my reply to Southkraut.
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This flatters my biases, but is there any hard evidence for it?
What else am I, a right-winger with limited knowledge of Sweden, supposed to take away from this statement?:
I'm pretty sure 'politicization' here means politicization of the background of the perpetrators.
No it meant that a justice system needs to be free from political influences, but due to bad leftist political ideas that has been introduced into the police like the criminals are victims of their socio-economic status(mostly through leadership by people like Dan Eliasson, who got the ignoble mention in Stupidity Paradox of destroying the Swedish Police organizational culture). This thinking is pervasive in the leadership of the police. So taking it from the threadstart "improved economic and social conditions generally does not reduce crime." is a disproving that criminals are victims socio-economic status. And most police knows that criminals are not somehow victims of structure or systems in place, but funds are being diverted from actual policing to projects that are crime-prevention on flawed ideas. So shooting are investigated by underfunded and understaffed departments that know full well that it is organized crime fighting over illegal business dealings. Knowing full well that these are "rational economic actors" in a segregated part of society. And I might as well described Italian Mafia in New York with that sentence so it doesn't really matter where the criminals come from... it is a function of not being direct part of society you live in and having the illegal ventures being profitable enough. Both of the ends of the political spectrum are obsessed with the identity of criminals which is not helping.
In other words, it's not about immigration per se, but still about bad leftist political ideas, although different ones.
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Well, Sweden intentionally doesn't collect these kinds of stats, so it would be hard to prove. But I would suggest that the fact that they don't collect these kinds of stats is pretty damning. Where there's smoke...
So maybe not hard proof. But bayesian evidence, yes
It occurs to me that training people to take one's "I don't know" to mean "I don't want to say" - which is what one is doing every time one uses "I don't know" to mean "I don't want to say" and people find out about it - is probably going to prove costly in the long run.
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