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This all started because they shut down the marijuana-market in Christiania. They shut it down due to gang-violence, which is only present due to the police raiding the place in the 00's, arresting all the locals and then expecting the issue to go away. To nobody's surprise organised crime, which had supplied marijuana to the market, now moved in and manned the stalls as well.
This wasn't too bad, but tensions have steadily grown, though the area was never particularly violent. Maybe the constant police raids didn't help, who can tell?

They tried shutting down the market several times, both with and without the help of the citizens of Christiania, but it never really amounted to anything. To nobody's surprise, whenever they shut down the area, you'd see a drastic increase in gang violence across Copenhagen, as they would now have to fight for territory. The danish police likes to claim that they are the ones who have ended these gang wars, but time and again it has been the gangs themselves that ended these wars by way of internal dialogue, usually after a particularly violent episode.

This dialogue has been facilitated by the knowledge that the market in Christiania would re-open, but this no longer seems to be the case.
So now we have escalating tensions between gangs in Copenhagen and the police aren't really doing anything, nor are they capable of doing anything, because they can't just rest on their laurels and let the gangs figure it out on their own, since the go-to solution has been removed. The police is used to doing some token action and then claiming responsibility for solving issues, which means it is expected they solve this, but they can't, because they don't actually understand why these things flare up or stop.
I fucking hate the cops, stupid corrupt motherfuckers

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[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

LMAO this sounds exactly like what goes on in the US. One example is the influx of refugees from El Salvador's civil war. After the war ended, people started returning home or were straight-up deported. Postwar El Salvador saw a drastic increase in violent crime and homicide than what they had before. The reason? All those people were treated like shit, MS-13 grew to fill the void left by the government, then MS-13 members were sent to El Salvador where they found everything ripe for the taking.

Had refugees been properly looked after and not forced to become drug mules for American gangs, things could have gone back to normal. Instead, they were brutalized by cops, forced into the "justice" system, then thrown away like trash. It's the same story of every gang here. El Salvador is just a good example because you don't have to rely on cops to find the data.

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