The Netherlands Closes Prisons Because It Doesn't Have Enough Prisoners
There are a couple reasons why there are so little people in jail in the Netherlands and not all are positive. Crime reporting rate has never been lower. People have very little confidence that reporting a crime will lead to the criminal getting caught or even convicted.<p>Many crimes are not solved. The crime solve rate is about 2-3% which means out of that small number of actual reported crimes only a marginal amounts get solved.<p>Out of those solved crimes only a percentage reaches an actual conviction for the criminal.<p>It's very common for judges to pass a community services punishment or an electronic ankle bracelet house arrest.<p>Lastly. Our current police and justice department like to do magic with the statistics to make everything seem like a colourful rainbow world where no crime happens at all.