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Honestly, lots of us Dutchies leave the house from time to time without ID. I don’t even think to carry it when I go running, or to the gym. And most of the tim
by wegwerp 3y ago
Honestly, lots of us Dutchies leave the house from time to time without ID. I don’t even think to carry it when I go running, or to the gym. And most of the time if you interact with the police while out without your ID it isn’t really a problem.
But that is of course only reliably true if you’re Dutch. The right kind of Dutch, too. Autochtoon used to be considered the polite term. (I always found it rather menacing personally.)
If you have contact with a police agent and you’re speaking English or are brown, yeah, better have that ID.
Of course anyone can be in the wrong place at the wrong time - maybe the agents the OP’s friend approached were conducting surveillance and interpreted an approach by a stranger without ID as suspicious under the circumstances. But I have also simply seen lots of differences in how police decide to enforce the law based on whom they are dealing with.
- abashedtemplate 3y agoyour mind has been corrupted by US propaganda
- HyperSane 3y agoWhat does the US have to do with The Netherlands required people to have ID at all times?
- 93po 3y agohe's implying that cops mistreating foreigners and brown people isn't true and that US media has portrayed this as a thing when it isn't one to be clear, my stance is BLM/ACAB
- AlecSchueler 3y agoThey should consider that the courts have literally ruled that the Dutch police are guilty of racial profiling: https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-police-found-guilty-racial-profiling-royal-netherlands-marechaussee-hague-ngo-amnesty-international/ https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-police-found-guilty-ra...
- hluska 3y agoYou set up an entirely new account to insult someone’s thought process? That’s very weak. Particularly because the conversation is about a totally different country.