The reactions to this story are interesting. There have been many similar reports, of course. "Stockholm - rape capital of Europe" was the particularly lurid headline of one. The "hard" fact is the 50% rise in reported rape in the last ten years. The speculative explanation for this rise ("speculative" because the ethnicity and country of origin of alleged perpetrators don't appear in the official stats) is immigration.
Now the facts may be false, or they may be grossly exaggerated. But, and I stress
but[i, what if the story is substantially true? Wouldn't any normal person (that is all of us who think of rape as probably the biggest act of violence next to murder) want to be aware of this and to have the problem dealt with? Surely the [i]first] response to the suggestion of (to use another common headline) "a rape epidemic" should be to get the real facts. If you then find the suggestion unfounded, then by all means question the motives of the people making the claim. The first responses (those I find interesting) of some on this thread seem to be to deny or trivialise the allegations, or to abuse or sneer at the people making them. That the story is true seems outside their imaginitive spectrum.
This, of course, was exactly what happened to Ann Cryer when she tried to deal with sexual grooming in her constituency. For those of you who've forgotten here's a reminder from an impeccable source:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/30/rotherham-girls-could-have-been-spared-ann-cryer