Dutch crime reporter shot, badly wounded in Amsterdam street
Dutch crime reporter shot, badly wounded in Amsterdam street
People like “Amsterdam has organized crime?”
And like, the basis of Amsterdam’s reason to exist is
- a fuck-huge port
- the sex trade
- the drugs trade
- (targeted to inhabitants of nearby larger polities)
It would be downright bizarre if it didn’t have an extensive organized-crime underworld
Like, think of the reputation of regional port cities. Liverpool? Rotterdam? Guy Ritchie movies? Christiana, in Copenhagen?
The marijuana coffeehouses and red-light district are a way to bring that stuff under color of law so it doesn’t fund crime, like how American state lotteries were a way to undercut popular local “numbers games” that were organized crime’s nose under the door