Most common crimes in Amsterdam are undoubtedly tied with drug dealing. Hard drugs, e.g. cocaine, md, ketamine or speed are commonly sold in the streets without any real danger for the dealer and the buyer. Even weed trafficking is largely illegal, since weed or hash can be sold and smoked inside a cooffeeshop, but it is illegal to grow, import, transport and even stocking quantities over 500gr of weed. It is obvious that with such a juridic void, criminality bridges it where it can. There's a strict control on weed's quality, but only with random test in cooffeeshops, not before.

Actually I've seen drunk and hallucinated people most nights ever since I've started working here, but it is actually unlikely to see people get violent. The center is constantly monitored by thousands of cams and if there's a problem, police is always there in a minute, this discourages anyone to abuse Netherland's tolerance. Don't annoy anyone and nobody will bother you for smoking a joint while walking in the street, even it's not legal.


Is there any felony that you would not compromise about when it comes to punishing, as a civilization marker, such as when judging violence towards weaker categories, or stealing public money while having a public role, or something else you would be ruthless about?