Almost every weekend you can read about robbery, assault and threats in Heol Senni, Bettws, Newport.
From 2017 to 2019, there was also a fourfold increase in the number of threats and attacks against the police.
Social challenges, poverty, exclusion, drugs and crime are closely linked. The young criminal repeat offenders in Oslo are a national problem, which is rooted locally.
Most of the cases where there is violence against civil servants take place in the Greenland district.
Alarming development
We are seeing an alarming development in the numbers for young people carrying knives and assault weapons. We are concerned that young people are committing violence, and this is hitting victims and society hard.
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I think few of the young regulars understand the consequences of the violence they commit. There are also young minority boys who dominate the statistics, the girls are almost not visible in the statistics.
The juvenile prisons in Norway have only eight places, and the police in Oslo have stated that around 30 per cent of the young criminal offenders in Oslo are relevant to the juvenile units.
In 2018, Oslo had 182 young criminal repeat offenders, a new record, according to the Salto report. There is no doubt that a boost is also needed nationally.
A culture characterized by punishment
It is quickly mobilized on social media. Boys, often with a minority background, act in larger groups and use violence against individuals. A culture characterized by punishment for “snitching”, threats of violence – also against the family – is common.
Oslo Frp believes that combating the increasing child and youth crime in Oslo needs more concrete measures, and increased focus on what we should change, and what we should change it to. We do not need more symbolic policy pursued by the Oslo City Council.
City councilor Raymond Johansen went to great lengths to the media and launched nine measures against young criminals. And one of the measures, an institution for juvenile delinquents, has not yet been implemented as of today. It is alarming, both for the young and for society. The municipality has neglected the work by keeping several of the districts the same – the “broken Windows” effect is clear.
Own sub-districts with their own rules
Today we have our own sub-districts with their own rules. For example, that boys from Mortensrud are reluctant to go to Holmlia, and vice versa, due to violence and threats.
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Increased exclusion, overcrowding, predominance of low income, and low education. Oslo does not have Swedish conditions, but all the elements in place. We know that the more established the gangs become, the easier it will be to calculate with a low risk. In January this year, an “execution” took place in Prinsdal.
Security, visibility and dialogue
The criminal networks and gangs in Oslo live off drugs that they spread to the rest of the country, such as Trondheim. Oslo Frp believes that vibrant districts must have security, visible police, dialogue with residents and other actors in the immediate area – as well as operational legal authority.
The Progress Party in Oslo believes that:
The police should use a restraining order against young repeat offenders, ie a ban on staying in, or visiting, special places and areas where the repeat offenders have been caught committing crime in the past.
Get the street patrol back in its original form – in uniform outside among people and not inside the office.
Have more places for those who are 15-18 years old in the youth unit in the penal care.
Create your own statistics for stabbing and threats with a knife.
Directed effort and overtime with dedicated police officers who are shielded from other tasks within the police.
Own street patrol with “senior police” in vulnerable areas
Encourage more young people with a minority background to apply to the police academy.