I've seen the Dutch police do those <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">stop-and-search raids outside Amsterdam and essentially they only stopped a certain kind of people, mostly colored so I somehow doubt the claim that there were no "discriminatory patterns".<div>
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On 10/20/2010 05:04 PM, Gregory Engels wrote:
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<div>This is so wring, it looks like outright stupidity from the
outside. </div>
<div>It is violating just so many human rights, including the</div>
<div>right of property, and is involving into very private moments</div>
<div>of one's life. And its also denies reality, of how people</div>
<div>are living together.</div>
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<div>But as far as i understand, this is just a proposal from some</div>
<div>derailed politician to put this to voting before city
council?</div>
<div>I think, that the amsterdam city council is not composed</div>
<div>of complete idiots and will not make themselves completely</div>
<div>ridiculous in the eye of the world's audience. </div>
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There was recently a civil rights campaign in Amsterdam against the
police being able to randomly stop-and-search people in the streets.
Information sheets from the public authorities even explicitly
stated the person stopped and searched did not necessarily have to
be suspected for anything. Apparently the stops and searches were
rather random (as in, no obvious discriminatory pattern against
minority groups detected), but still...<br>
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I did not hear about that having any effect on the Amsterdam
establishment.<br>
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Same campaign found two verdicts from ECoHR the declared such
arbitrary stops and searches illegal. :/<br>
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I meant, on the topic of what is plausible to happen in Amsterdam.
Teh place is not so good.<br>
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