Gottsunda, is a

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Uppsala Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

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. In 2007, it had 9,474 inhabitants. The majority of the buildings are

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s built as part of the

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in the 1960s and 1970s. The name is derived from the farm Gottsunda, and Gutasund or Guttasund is mentioned in sources as far back as 1304. The Swedish

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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, and during the following three years, the number of crimes decreased by 33%. In the later half of the 2010s, there were several incidents involving shootings and cars being set on fire and in its 2017 report, the

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placed the district in the most severe category of urban areas with high crime rates. 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. 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.

References

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