Sweden Increases Justice Budget to Crack Down on Crime

Sweden is increasing spending on its justice system by 3.46 billion krona ($335 million) in its budget bill for 2025 in a bid to curb crime rates, the nation’s justice minister said on Wednesday. The justice system budget will grow by 8 billion krona, or 10 percent, year over year to 86.7 billion krona ($8.5 billion) in 2025, according to the plans. The Scandinavian nation has become a hotspot for gang violence, often involving minors, over the past decade and now suffers the highest per-capita rate of gun violence in the European Union. Police statistics show that there were at least 363 shootings in 2023, with 53 being fatal, and a spike in the number of bombings to 149 from 90....