The number of juvenile delinquents in Oslo has increased sharply in recent years. The government is spending more and more money to get them on the right track. FRP believes the government does not dare to talk about the real cause of the problem.
Leakage: In the revised state budget, Minister of Justice Monica Mæland puts 20 new million on the table to fight juvenile and gang crime.
– The vast majority of young people in Norway are law-abiding, but we have groups, gangs and networks in many Norwegian cities. And we see that some young people commit crime – also more serious crime. We are particularly concerned with preventing this, she says.
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Tuesday The government presents a revised national budget, which is an update of the proposed budget for 2021.
The government directs an extra NOK 20 million against juvenile delinquency, divided into three items with different purposes: Prevention, prevention of relapse and to follow up young people who have committed crimes.
- NOK 10 million extra to the police to strengthen the preventive efforts both in the local environment and online.
- NOK 5 million for the establishment of youth teams in the penal care system that will provide young adults in the age group 18 to 24 years with enhanced follow-up and facilitation.
- NOK 5 million extra to the conflict council to increase the capacity among their youth coordinators, as well as strengthen the work restorative process in such cases.
More than doubled
A report from the Oslo Police District in 2020 shows that the number of young people who commit repeated crimes has increased sharply since 2015.
From 2010-2015, there was a significant decline. The graph shows the number of young people aged 10-17 with four or more reviews during the same year.
– When the number of young people who commit repeated crimes has been increasing sharply, why not take stronger measures?
– The question is of course what would have happened if we had not put in extra measures, as we have done the last two years in Oslo, Mæland answers.
– In addition to extra money for justice and prison care, we have our own area investment in Oslo. So we are clearly investing in Oslo, where the problem has been growing, and it has hopefully calmed down that no more people have become criminals.
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– Is this about immigration?
– No, it’s about children and young people. They may come from different parts of the city and have different backgrounds. Many have it in common with exclusion and neglect. They tell about experiences in child welfare institutions or growing up in cramped conditions, so this has many sides.
She also refers to money that has been spent in recent years.
- In 2019 and 2020, the government spent 61 million to strengthen police efforts in Oslo, as well as 16 million for youth follow-up in the conflict council.
- 25 temporary million in 2020 to fight gang crime in the Oslo area.
The government is also working on a report to the Storting on child, youth and gang crime.
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– Is about immigration
Oslo representative and this autumn’s top candidate on the FRP’s parliamentary list in Oslo, Christian Tybring-Gjedde, fires up Mæland’s response.
He believes NOK 20 million is nothing to brag about, and accuses Mæland of not addressing the cause of the problems.
– The answers from Mæland are a good example of the touch anxiety most politicians have associated with the consequences of high and too fast immigration.
– The truth is that the development, especially in Oslo, is immigrant-related. It is related to immigration from some countries that all have in common that they are dominated by a culture and religion that does not respect our liberal values of freedom. Nor do they have respect for the authorities of society.
Tybring-Gjedde believes that the police must involve the parents of the youth in question more.
– What is needed is to make the parents responsible for the activities their children carry out. There are several “harmless” remedies to do so. Fines are a good starting point. Then one must limit immigration from the countries that are overrepresented in the gangs. To overcome all this, it does not help to allocate another 20 million in new measures. It will not solve anything, potentially hurt worse.
This autumn, the government and the FRP will negotiate the national budget, since the government is dependent on the FRP to achieve a majority in the Storting.
Recently, justice politician in the Conservative Party, Peter Frølich, was out and about asked for progress in the work of new measures against the gangs.
Tybring-Gjedde believes that Mæland and Frølich use alternative facts to avoid pointing the finger at the real problems.
– Frølich and now Mæland will not accept the facts, therefore they are desperately looking for alternative facts. It is too uncomfortable to say what is true and it is often a great personal burden and uncomfortable to face such questions.
Monica Mæland has declined to comment on the criticism from Tybring-Gjedde.
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