In the new Novus survey conducted in collaboration with UR, the corresponding 744 children are between 9–12 years old.

The results show, among other things, that the vast majority (94 percent) feel very or fairly safe in the area where they live, while 4 percent feel quite or very insecure.  

28 percent state that they have seen something illegal, such as violence, theft or drug dealing, happen near their home or school.

In addition, about one in ten (11 percent) have themselves experienced something illegal in the vicinity of their residential area. 

In the Järva area in Stockholm, more than seven out of ten shootings that have occurred since 2018 have taken place near a school, SVT's survey shows.

In the SVT documentary "Who will save the children", children say that they do not dare to think about their future because they are worried about being shot dead.

Asks the Minister of Justice

10-year-old Sidra Al-Zahrooni lives in Rinkeby.

Shortly after her family moved there, a young man was shot dead in their neighborhood.

Now Sidra wants to change the situation. 

Together with Lilla Aktuellt, she therefore meets with Sweden's Minister of Justice and Home Affairs to ask what he should do about the insecurity and hand over a letter that her class wrote to the Prime Minister.

Morgan Johansson (S) answers that the solution is found in more police, school, social services and harsher punishments - and promises to give the letter to Magdalena Andersson (S). 

- I think that during these eight years he could have done something bigger that helps more, says Sidra Al-Zahrooni after the meeting.

The moderates: "We try to help"

The Moderates, like the Social Democrats, believe that more police officers and harsher punishments should lead to reduced insecurity in vulnerable areas.  

SVT: Why are you not helping to solve this? 

- We try to help each other in the areas where we feel the same way.

There is no party that is for crime, but we can think differently in how to fight it, answers the Moderates' legal policy spokesman Johan Forsell. 

See Sidra Al-Zahrooni's meeting with Morgan Johansson (S) in the video above.