Rotterdam confiscates expensive clothes from youth without cash
ROTTERDAM
The Rotterdam police will be confiscating expenisive clothes from youth who can't prove where it's from. The ombuds fears etnic profiling.
The police in Rotterdam has been employing a 'patseraanpak' [trans: 'going after showboats'], but until now it's been mainly reserved to expensive cars. Cops will now be trained to recognize expensive clothes, watches, shoes and such. This is a pilot project.
<<UNDRESS IN THE STREETS>>
Police chief Frank Pauw explained in 'De Telegraaf' [trans: 'The Telegraph', a newspaper] that it concerns youth who, for example, wear an outfit worth 1.500 euro, while they don't have an income or even have debts. When the suspiscion arises that there is criminal behavior in play and the owner can't proof he bought the clothes, he must turn them over.
<<It's mostly young men who concider themselves untouchable. We are going to undress them in the streets.>>, says Pauw in De Telegraaf. <<An expensive coat like that is what a speedboat is to a succesful druglord. We're going to be asking explicit questions about the origins.>>
The police will be working together with the prosecution. Only the court can decide on confiscations.
ETNIC PROFILING
The township ombudsperson Anne Mieke Zwanenveld is not on board with the project. She fears that mostly youth from foreign origin will be the focus of this all, on the basis of the color of their skin.
Taking a watch goest to far for her, but the 'patseraanpak' of expensive cars is not a problem. <<With cars you can see who is the owner and you can objectively decide on the current value>>, she explains. <<And besides has it always been the case in the 'patseraanpak' that there had to be sufficient indications. When there are indications that people traffic in drugs or firearms, you naturally don't want those revenues to be cashed by those people.>>
Source: Schwarz, T., Rotterdam pakt dure kledij af van jongeren zonder geld. Metro nr.3738, 5 januari 2018, p. 5.
Translated to give me some practice with english. And because I found it interesting.
ROTTERDAM
The Rotterdam police will be confiscating expenisive clothes from youth who can't prove where it's from. The ombuds fears etnic profiling.
The police in Rotterdam has been employing a 'patseraanpak' [trans: 'going after showboats'], but until now it's been mainly reserved to expensive cars. Cops will now be trained to recognize expensive clothes, watches, shoes and such. This is a pilot project.
<<UNDRESS IN THE STREETS>>
Police chief Frank Pauw explained in 'De Telegraaf' [trans: 'The Telegraph', a newspaper] that it concerns youth who, for example, wear an outfit worth 1.500 euro, while they don't have an income or even have debts. When the suspiscion arises that there is criminal behavior in play and the owner can't proof he bought the clothes, he must turn them over.
<<It's mostly young men who concider themselves untouchable. We are going to undress them in the streets.>>, says Pauw in De Telegraaf. <<An expensive coat like that is what a speedboat is to a succesful druglord. We're going to be asking explicit questions about the origins.>>
The police will be working together with the prosecution. Only the court can decide on confiscations.
ETNIC PROFILING
The township ombudsperson Anne Mieke Zwanenveld is not on board with the project. She fears that mostly youth from foreign origin will be the focus of this all, on the basis of the color of their skin.
Taking a watch goest to far for her, but the 'patseraanpak' of expensive cars is not a problem. <<With cars you can see who is the owner and you can objectively decide on the current value>>, she explains. <<And besides has it always been the case in the 'patseraanpak' that there had to be sufficient indications. When there are indications that people traffic in drugs or firearms, you naturally don't want those revenues to be cashed by those people.>>
Source: Schwarz, T., Rotterdam pakt dure kledij af van jongeren zonder geld. Metro nr.3738, 5 januari 2018, p. 5.
Translated to give me some practice with english. And because I found it interesting.
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