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Sweden

Just the Facts

Charles Oliver | 1.25.2016 6:00 AM

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Police in Stockholm, Sweden, have been ordered not to include race, ethnicity, nationality, skin color or height in any descriptions of criminal suspects it releases to the public. Officials say they don't want to appear to be racist.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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