Bruce Bawer summarizes his thoughts about immigrant crime in Holland in a letter to Sullivan following the attack on Chris Crain:

But what are the authorities doing about it? What can they do? Half of Amsterdam's population is of non-Dutch origin. It was recently reported that 40% of Moroccan youths in Amersfoort between ages 15 and 17 were suspected by the police of criminal activity. The Amersfoort police have files on 21% of Moroccan youths and 27% of Somali youths. A criminologist said this was probably representative of the situation nationwide.

As for the cops finding the guys who beat up Chris Crain: I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they haven’t lifted a finger. They probably thought he was nuts for confronting the guys. The authorities’ traditional policy is: keep your head down and don’t provoke anybody. In January, two schoolboys in IJsselstein were ordered to remove Dutch flag patches from their backpacks because Moroccan students might consider them provocative. It turned out this flag ban is officially in force at many schools. Meanwhile Muslim kids have pictures of van Gogh's murderer on their lunchboxes because they consider him a hero, and nobody dares tell them to remove those pictures. In a recent article, a teacher at a school in Amsterdam said that a decade ago, ten-year-old Muslim kids were saying, 'We Moroccans are going to take over the Netherlands'; now five-year-olds who can hardly write are scrawling 'Fuck you Netherlands' on scraps of paper.

There's more so read the whole thing, he interestingly goes on to criticize the Dutch royals about their role in all of this, something I did here last week.

The essence though it that law and order is surely but steadily breaking down, not just in Amsterdam, but in most of Holland. Based on Dutch news and talking to friends and relatives I have to concur with this depressing assessment, the list of random violence and other attacks has increased considerably over the past decade. There would be hope if a pro-active justice system would be equipped with an appropriate set of tools to prevent and prosecute, but there's scant hope for that.