Police in Rotterdam are implementing a novel approach to reduce crime: stripping young people of their expensive clothes and jewelry if the youths look too poor to own them. If the young people cannot prove that they own the items, the items will be confiscated.
Rotterdam police chief Frank Paauw told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, “They are often young guests who consider themselves untouchable. We’re going to undress them on the street. We regularly take a Rolex from a suspect. Clothes rarely. And that is especially a status symbol for young people. Some young people now walk with jackets of €1800 (roughly $2,200). They do not have any income, so the question is how they get there.”
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