Eth(ni)cal dilemma

Apparently someone got the bright idea register the ethnic background of criminals. Of course the Dutch politicians are devided on the subject, as they are a merry mish mash of all sorts of opinionated people.
And our prime minster agrees. He’s entitled to his opinion, that’s fine with me.

To me this seems a weird idea at best. I don’t really care where a criminal’s from and I can’t see how anyone could care about it at all. Does it make a robbery, act of agression, murder or whatever any different? Maybe we should ask the victims if they’d rather have been say, shot by a Dutch or French criminal as opposed to an Antillean or Moroccan.

Leave a Reply