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The Netherlands. I assume for some more Northern European and Scandinavian countries it's about the same.
by Myce 6y ago
The Netherlands. I assume for some more Northern European and Scandinavian countries it's about the same.
- colinhb 6y agoI am an American living in Netherlands, and policing is very different here. Think Dutch police (or at least Amsterdam police) have a much more positive impact on neighborhoods than American police (or DC / San Francisco police). I have seen more mediation and deescalation between neighbors from police in a few years in the Netherlands than decades in America. This is a tangent, there also seems to be way, way less paperwork in routine police work in the Netherlands than in America.
- tyrlo 6y agoHey no offense but tour analysis of how police works un the NL is a best partial. NL is under investigation of countless NGO for having structural racisim, relationships with far right parties and high level corruption within the police force, you can have a look to reports from the league of human right for exemple. Also social helpers system is going nowhere as you have to wait an average of 15 years to get social housing, and in the meanwhile if you're out of options you gotta go into expensive homeless shelters that would make living in the streets desirable given how bad they are, if it wasn't illegal. NL's state build a nice image of nice police and nice social help, but that's an image, reality is far from that