According to no less a figure than the city's official ombudsman, late-night #Amsterdam now resembles the Wild West, with a general breakdown of law and order which raises uncomfortable political + philosophical questions
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Arre Zuurmond, Municipal Ombudsman for #Amsterdam: a poisonous combination of criminal money, weak central authority and an alarming lack of police has turned #Amsterdam into an 'urban jungle'
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Analysis (1): #Amsterdam does many things very well, but it needs to rethink what kind of tourists and nightlife it wants to cultivate – as well as provide adequate resources to desperately overstretched public services
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Analysis (2): the drug and prostitution laws of #Amsterdam and indeed #Holland are more nuanced than they are given credit for, but these nevertheless have had the effect of sending out problematic signals
— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) August 6, 2018
To watch: #Amsterdam's slow degradation into a #city in which the basic tenets of lawful #life are often ignored entirely should at least spark a debate about whether #libertarian positions can end up eroding the very idea of public space if pushed too far https://t.co/pBHNqz109G
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