Police reported a preliminary decrease in the number of women murdered by their partners, though specific data or statistics showing the extent of this decline have not been released. An official suggested the Beta method, which involves finding risk factors and identifying men prone to violence, may be an explanation for the decrease, but details on what exactly the Beta method entails and how widely it has been implemented remain unclear. The police have ended the national initiative against men's violence against women, which is believed to have contributed to the development, and the responsibility for addressing such violence has been transferred to the various police regions.
Why the police decided to end the national initiative and transfer responsibility to regions has not been fully explained. Olga Persson, chair of Unizon, welcomed the police's announcement about the preliminary decrease in women murdered by their partners, but she is critical of the police ending the national initiative against men's violence against women. Persson gave an example from a murder case in Ånge where the transfer of responsibility to police regions did not work, though the specific failures in that case that she references have not been detailed.
How the police regions have performed in addressing men's violence against women since the transfer of responsibility is still being assessed.