Eric Adams Acknowledges Progressive Criminal Justice Reforms Contribute to Growing Crime Rates

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In the main cities you still have to watch out for pick pockets, if you want to do pot (don't know why anybody would want to, but that is me, do you know that in our county only 5.4% of Dutch people annually use cannabis? compared to almost 14% in the US) you are only allowed to smoke it in the coffeeshops, if you walk around with it, you will get it impounded and if it is a small amount you can get away without even a ticket (just a warning). If you want to stay in Amsterdam, you should get a GVB day card or multiple day card, this will allow you to travel through the city as much as you want where ever you want to go. With subway, trams and bus travel (including the night bus). If you walk in the city, look out for cyclists, they are a law upon themselves.

Don't eat in restaurants in the city center shopping areas. I used to (a long time ago when I lived close to Amsterdam) would go to the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal (a street behind the red light district) and there used to be dozens of restaurants there, a taste for everyone, just check online how the quality is (and the pricing).

And idyllic might be going a bit too far because no country is perfect, even though the children growing up in the Netherlands are the happiest in the world.

But there are sketchy neighborhoods in the Netherlands too, with higher crime figures and where drug criminality is higher than other areas.

There are some weird and wonderful hotels in the Netherlands, just look at this one

But our police is usually nothing like the American police, look at this video where 2 officers stop a car who has been driving around in Utrecht for a long time just driving in circles.

And yes, it is subtitled and after the check for the license they ask the officers if they can direct them to the hookers in Utrecht (there was a red light district there at the time of this video, nine years ago) and the officers direct them to the easiest way to get to the prostitutes.


But unlike the US police you always have to identify if a police officer asks for your ID card. Because it is mandatory to walk around with an ID card (you can get fined for it).

Checks for DUI is also different, in the Netherlands you are NEVER asked to do the party tricks the US police uses, you get a road side breath test in which you blow, if the light goes red you will be transported to the police bureau for a breath test on a forensic breath analyzer which you have to blow in twice, one time for a first indication and a second test about 20 minutes later.

Back to the subject, there is also no refusal to sign for a ticket problems in the Netherlands which might lead to an arrest. You don't have to sign a ticket, usually you don't even get a ticket anymore, that comes in the mail about 6 weeks later. Then you can choose to pay it or appeal it in front of a judge.

FYI, this is what a Dutch youtuber thought was a shocking arrest of a black individual

Thanks Peter,
I passed on your helpful tidbits to my two female traveling companions.
They might find your advice helpful also.

 

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Eric Adams Acknowledges Progressive Criminal Justice Reforms Contribute to Growing Crime Rates

Agreed. Every Democrat run city is facing the same problem.


It's had the opposite effect from what was promised.


Because he is right.

Listen to the man, he speaks the truth.

Bad cops need to be rooted out. All cops need new and improved training. City crime centers need to be flooded with intervention programs, job skills programs, life lesson training...

But criminals need to be held accountable. More highly secure prisons need to be build for the worst in society, to remove the instigators of prison crime from the picture. More work needs to be done to prepare short timers with skills needed to reenter society, including job skills, life skill, conflict resolution, etc.

Then, provide them with better post-prison assistance, employment, social integration, staying out of trouble.

Congratulations Eric, you finally realized what citizens of New York (in my case ex-New Yorker) knew for some time now.
The current NYS bail reform law needs to be eliminated, it's places the citizens in danger from repeat offenders.
The state needs to allow NYS CCW gun permit holders to carry in the city.
You need to get rid of the city's DA.