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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by diskooo on Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:16AM (#12919461)
Yeah, no wonder - you rape somebody here and you have to clean the streets for a week. If you're unlucky that is.

Police officers are too busy with mobile speed controls. They don't (dare) arrest anybody who's foul-mouthing them in their face. They have become laughing stock.

Crime sentences (duration) are deplorable. Solved crime rates are way too low.

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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by spiderfarmer on Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:35AM (#12919542)
Do you have any solved crime rate statistics, when compared to other countries?

The Police manpower is on par with the UK. And the amount of prisoners / 100.000 inhabitants is on par with Germany. See sources in my other comment.

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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by diskooo on Thursday November 10, 2016 @07:57AM (#12919969)
https://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pre...

A little dated, but it surely shows a trend which has only gotten worse over the past years.

It has a comparison between The Netherlands and Germany.

Another source: https://translate.google.nl/translate?hl=nl&sl=nl&tl=en&u=ht...

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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by mrmrcoleman on Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:45AM (#12919588)
+1
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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by mcv on Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:39AM (#12919561)
Low solved crimes rates are indeed a problem if that's true (it seems to be, but I'm not sure), but short sentences don't have to be a problem if they're effective at stopping inmates from returning to crime.

The goal should not be to lock people up, the goal should be to prevent crime.

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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by eyko on Thursday November 10, 2016 @06:45AM (#12919585)
Are you suggesting we should send people to prison for foul mouthing a police officer? And what if they foul mouthed a fellow civilian?
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Re:Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners by Broken_Hippo on Thursday November 10, 2016 @08:22AM (#12920104)
People expect retail workers to be nice to folk during and after they are "foul-mouthing them in their face." If we expect this from the folks near the bottom of the chain, why should we not expect this from the police?

Being an ill-tempered individual doesn't make one a criminal. Nor should it.

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