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Sweden promises equal policing while drug stops produce ethnic disparities
Brå found systematic differences in police encounters and more unconfirmed drug suspicions for some backgrounds.
Sweden says public institutions must prevent discriminatory structures, yet police drug work produces measurable differences for people with African and Southwest Asian backgrounds. Those gaps carry costs even when an encounter produces no charge, including lost time and damaged trust.
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