Searching with ‘digital dice’ in Amsterdam: ‘Ridiculous’ | Inland

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‘This shows an unfounded distrust in the police’

Amsterdam – During the expansion of the trial with preventive frisking in Amsterdam, a special selection column will be used, in which not the police officer but a ‘digital die’ determines whether a passer-by should be checked for weapons. Mayor Femke Halsema wrote this to the city council. The pillar must prevent ethnic profiling.

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