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That still happens in Germany?!?!? Why don't the polizei scoop them up? Seems like an easy way to boost your arrest #'s.

• royjacobs 5y ago
  Police in Northern Europe typically spend their time going after large dealers, producers, etc. Arresting low-level dealers happens too of course, but believe it or not, police over here don't consider the # of arrests to be their primary KPI.
• Hackbraten 5y ago
  Good question. I’d guess it’s probably a mix of several contributing factors: - For immigrants from (non-EU) countries, it can be hard to almost impossible to obtain a work permit. If the police learns they’re dealing with such a case, they know the perpetrator is probably going to pick up the same business no matter whether they spend one night behind bars or three years. They’re probably going to go back to selling drugs either way. But that means two things: 1. Putting those people (who certainly need a way to feed their families) behind bars is not going to be worth the hassle. 2. The desire to do meaningful work can cause police officers to look away and focus on other kinds of crime (and often prevention) where they feel their work has an actual impact. - German prisons are usually not privately owned or operated. There’s relatively little incentive to fill them, and each prisoner costs the state money. - The German justice system is leaning more towards rehabilitating criminals than punishing them. Judges know very well what trade-offs are involved whenever they lock a person away so they tend to hand out prison terms rather conservatively.
• lm28469 5y ago
  Lots of places in Europe allow it in restricted areas. There is a children park in the middle of Paris known for being almost exclusively used by drug addicts and dealers. They know the drugs will be sold anyways so the logic is to restrain it to a specific place. In Berlin one of them is Gorlitzer Park, the police is circling the park all the time to avoid crimes (other than selling drugs) It's not really a problem these days since you can order all kind of drugs (anything from weed to coke) from signal/telegram groups and get them delivered to your door, sometimes faster than food deliveries
  • throwbigdata 5y ago
    Selling drugs at a children’s park. What’s wrong with that?
    • herbst 5y ago
      I can only speak of my own experience here in Switzerland. But nobody minds if a corner of the park is a little more busy as long as everyone is nice to each other. You don't consume where you buy so there is nothing really not kid friendly about it. Also parks where this things happen are usually not exactly tiny playgrounds but actual parks.
    • barrkel 5y ago
      FWIW, at one point I had my bike locked up in Hamburg, and had lost my key. I still had the key to the (small) chain I brought with me, but not the key. When I was fussing around my bike - I no longer recall exactly what I was trying to do - the local drug dealer actually came over to question what I was doing :) (In the end I got a new lockset installed on the bike, cost 750 EUR, involved replacing the ignition, the fuel cap and the rear seat lock, only only happened because I brought my registration documents with me on the trip. The bike, at that age and mileage, was only worth about 3000 EUR, to put that in perspective. But the point of the story is a criminal challenging potential criminal activity...)
• herbst 5y ago
  Maybe because more arrests are a bad sign and not a good one? There really is no reason to boost anything around here