(DCNF)—Violent crimes rates declined rapidly after Swedish police were given greater authority to crackdown on criminal organizations who recruit children to become hitmen despite liberal outcries against the measures.
Middle Eastern drug syndicates in Sweden recruited children as young as 12 years old through social media to carry out assassinations against rival gang members causing a massive peak in gun violence in 2022, the Telegraph reported. The Swedish government granted new enforcement powers to the police in 2024 that civil liberty campaigners condemned and the United Nations called “repugnant and illegal,” according to the outlet.
Despite this, the Swedish government saw 147 shootings in 2025, a 63% decline compared to the peak of 390 in 2022, per the outlet. Murder and manslaughter hit their lowest rate in almost a decade even though Sweden recently had the second-highest gun related deaths in the entire European Union (EU).
The greatest enforcement asset the Swedish police were able to use was creating safe zones in areas considered high risk to shootings or explosions, according to the Telegraph. This allows allow the law enforcement to perform searches on vehicles and people, including children, without needing suspicion of a crime.
Swedish police can, under their new authority, surveil the phones and internet of children under 15 if they are suspected of being involved in serious criminal activity, the outlet reported. Furthermore, police are now also able to pick out children through clues that suggest they are involved in gang activities, such as wearing certain clothing brands, according to the Telegraph.
Civil rights campaigners decried these measures as racial profiling due to the fact most safe zones targeted heavily migrant populated neighborhoods, per the outlet. Swedish police focused on these neighborhoods because migrant youth were the target demographic for gangs like the Foxtrot Network.
Carin Götblad, a Stockholm police chief, told the Telegraph in an interview that many of the foreign born population responded positively to the new police measures.
“They wanted to have them, because they were scared and they trusted the police to use them [the new enforcement powers],” Götblad told the outlet. “They didn’t feel they were being discriminated against, it was those from a Swedish background who were not so positive about it.”
The Foxtrot Network, a Sweden-based criminal organization, specifically targeted children under 15 to carry out hit jobs, knowing they could not be criminally prosecuted by Swedish law to dissuade gangs from using children, according to the Telegraph. Because of this, the Swedish government changed the law to lower the age of responsibility from 15 to 13 for serious crimes.
The U.S. sanctioned the Foxtrot Network in March 2025 for its attempted attack on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm and alleged the Foxtrot leader, Rawa Majid, cooperated with Iranian intelligence.
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Why One Survival Food Company Shines Above the Rest
Let’s be real. “Prepper Food” or “Survival Food” is generally awful. The vast majority of companies that push their cans, bags, or buckets desperately hope that their customers never try them and stick them in the closet or pantry instead. Why? Because if the first time they try them is after the crap hits the fan, they’ll be too shaken to call and complain about the quality.
It’s true. Most long-term storage food is made with the cheapest possible ingredients with limited taste and even less nutritional value. This is why they tout calories so much. Sure, they provide calories but does anyone really want to go into the apocalypse with food their family can’t stand?
This is what prompted the Llewellyns to launch Heaven’s Harvest. They bought survival food from multiple companies and determined they couldn’t imagine being stuck in an extended emergency with such low-quality food. They quickly discovered that freeze drying food for long-term storage doesn’t have to mean sacrificing flavor, consistency, or nutrition.
Their ingredients are all-American. In fact, they’re locally sourced and all-natural! This allows their products to be the highest quality on the market, so good that their customers often break open a bag in a pinch to eat because they want to, not just because they have to due to an emergency.
At Heaven’s Harvest, their only focus is amazing food. They don’t sell bugout bags, solar chargers, or multitools. They have one mission – feeding Americans in times of crisis.
What they DO offer is the ability for people to thrive in times of greatest need. On top of long-term storage food, they offer seeds to help Americans for the truly long-term. They want them to grow their own food if possible which is why they offer only Heirloom, Non-GMO, Non-Hybrid, Open-Pollinated seeds so their customers can build permanent food security on their own property.
