Gottsunda

Gottsunda, is a district in Uppsala, Sweden. In 2007, it had 9,474 inhabitants.[1] The majority of the buildings are high-rise buildings built as part of the Million Programme in the 1960s and 1970s.[2]

Musikvägen road/walking trail crossing, Gottsunda

The name is derived from the farm Gottsunda, and Gutasund or Guttasund is mentioned in sources as far back as 1304. The Swedish botanist Carl von Linné is known to have made excursions to Gottsunda with his students during the 18th century.

Social issues

In the period leading up to 2009, there were a continuous increase in the number of crimes reported to police. After an arrest rioters started throwing rocks at police and setting fire to cars and car tires. The police started a collaboration with the school and social services in the area,[3] and during the following three years, the number of crimes decreased by 33%.[2]

In the later half of the 2010s, there were several incidents involving shootings and cars being set on fire[4][5][6] and in its 2017 report, the Swedish Police Authority placed the district in the most severe category of urban areas with high crime rates.[7] Regional chief of police Carin Götblad stated that the classification was due to having a number of criminal gangs, many illegal weapons in circulation and families where a criminal lifestyle is inherited from generation to generation.[8]

In 2017, police registered 2800 incident reports in the district, which was an increase of 17% on the previous year. An incident is anything from violent crime to a broken window.[9]

References
  1. Områdesfakta 2008, Uppsala kommun
  2. Utvärdering av samverkan för att förebygga social oro i Järvaområdet (PDF) (in Swedish). Polismyndigheten i Stockholms län, Stockholm municipality. pp. 49–50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2017.
  3. unt.se (2009-08-30). "Flera nya bränder i Gottsunda". www.unt.se. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  4. Söderlund, Signe (2017-09-26). "Fler bilbränder i Gottsunda" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  5. "Bilbränder i Gottsunda – räddningstjänsten fick poliseskort". 24Uppsala.se. 2017-11-05. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  6. "Polisen håller presskonferens om satsning mot den grova brottsligheten i Gottsunda". svt.se. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  7. Utsatta områden - Social ordning, kriminell struktur och utmaningar för polisen / Dnr HD 44/14A203.023/2016 (PDF). Swedish Police Authority - Nationella operativa avdelningen - Underrättelseenheten. June 2017. p. 41. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  8. Nyheter, SVT. ""Gottsunda och Valsätra har en problematik"". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-10-28.
  9. Wolters, Staffan (2018-01-27). "Så ska Gottsunda bli tryggare". www.unt.se. Retrieved 2019-03-19.

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