In 2017, we traveled to Sweden to investigate viral claims that the country was besieged by crime due to a sudden influx of refugees in 2015. We researched the following questions: Is Sweden the “rape capital” of the world?; are refugee men over-represented in Swedish crime?; and, does Sweden have ‘no-go zones’ where the police can’t enter? Here are the results of our investigation.
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Crime in Sweden
After a large influx of refugees in Sweden, anti-immigrant partisans promoted unfounded claims about a surge in crime.
