Holland: racist crime figures released
01 January 1991
Holland: racist crime figures released
artdoc May=1993
The chief police officer in Amsterdam, Eric Nordholt, claimed on
a radio programme that black youth from Surinam, the Antilles and
Morocco committed eighty per cent of street crime and warned of
LA-style riots. However, a city police spokesman admitted that
the figures only referred to suspects - not those arrested and
convicted - and that figures for all crimes were not available
as the police only analysed street crime on the basis of a
suspect's racial origin. As if to justify the release of these
figures the spokesman said: `This is a deliberate choice, we want
to confront politicians with this serious problem and call on
them to do something about it'. Inter Press Service, 1.2.93.
Statewatch vol 3 no 2 March-April 1993