Is The Netherlands Safe? Safety in The Netherlands vs America /An American Living in The Netherlands

So I have to ask, what do you guys think the craziest thing I’ve seen in the Netherlands!

Amsterdam is far from representative for dutch cities in general.

is a very big difference between Adam and the USA my friend usa more than 200 millions people the netherlands 18 million people

I live in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Been to NYC, Philly and DC but i feel safer over there than in Amsterdam.

I'm Dutch, and I can tell you, 90% of the drivers here are convinced they drive better than the average! LOL

Dutch drivers are convinced they are better drivers than 90% of the rest of the Dutch drivers. 😀

0:45 Already… just the short views of chicago and LA…. It is so foreign to me as a dutchie. The SCALE difference…

Yeah I think here we have a lot more social security then in the US, health insurance and allowences for example. A lot less homeless people, but it's getting more unfortunately.

In the US I think there are alot more problems not being dealt with, like poverty, at the same time Nederland is a lot smaller so it's much easier to organize things (even though we always complain about how bad politicians run the country)

Netherlands is a very unsafe place we have the highest kill rate of europe! That’s why we have so much flowers to use at our funerals. Stay in the USA and don’t visit rotterdam. Otherwise stay in Amsterdam

The fact that our prime minister went to work on a bicycle every day says enough.

Are you called 'black' in your country? You certainly don't look black to me.

Would be safer without your kind there.

A country is saver when there is a huge social security system in the form of a good funding of public works like schools, hospitals, housing, road networks, income, medical etcetera. In the Netherlands there used to be a good system, but with years of right wing governments it all dwindles down. Now you have more problems in the society.

Banning all guns and other weapons is also a good thing. Just don't make them anymore.

Sorry, but we don't have free access to guns in The Netherlands and Europe. We have gun laws.

I wouldn't say that the Dutch are good drivers, but I think it's not as easy to pass your drivers exams as it is in the US

Had problems with the speed on an old scooter. Drove with it to the police and they helped me figure it out and to fix it. Motorcycle cops sure like everything on two wheels.

About guns, almost. No european country really has guns. And the once that do have it very much regulated more then the USA.
I don’t know if you are able to ban them or get them all of the street, but I do not know a EU country with guns as much as the USA.

Personally I think gun ownership restrictions and legislation in The Netherlands are way to strict. In 1890 they didn't took that constitutional right away because they feared for public safety and some pseudo idealistic dream, the government did it to protect themselves. Cause they wanted to install a new tax system which they knew the population would hate and were afraid just in other European countries at the time that people would revolt. But do the year' s of extreme chronic shortages of police personal, and realistically the police rarely prevents anything (they cant materialize so it isn't a dish) if you do find yourself at the wrong time & place your pretty much screwed. Of course anti gun politicians and people always use the fear argument, but there are plenty of European nation were people own fire arms; and it isn't the wild west over in those countries. It's typical Dutch to take away rights that used to be guaranteed by the constitution for people to protect themselves against criminals and also the state.

The Dutch destruction of the Dutch referendums cause our Europhile politicians hated it and feared it because we (I' m half Dutch) in 2005 dared to reject the EU constitution with 61% majority vote and analytics also showed that of the 467 municipalities at the time only 26 were in favor. And the like fake democracy The Netherlands has been of course the politicians ignored the outcome. While several of them before the referendum said they were going to honor the outcome what ever would happen And most left wing and center parties like Labor betrayed the population by not respecting the outcome and changed a few words and letters so it could be rammed through as a treaty and so they didn't had to write out another referendum. In 2016 there a second referendum about the EU/Ukraine Association Treaty which most people were against and rejected it again by a majority vote in a referendum, with Dutch politicians not liking the outcome and did the exact same thing as they in 2005. In our last referendum in 2018, where the population this time rejected a law which would grand the state and its security apparatus immense powers to violate privacy, medical privacy, mail privacy etc without any legally framed suspicion and without court orders. And mass surveillance and lots of loop holes to share that data with who ever the government saw fit. And shortly after in 2018m this so called democratic and developed nation was the first democracy after the former DDR (communist east Germany during the Cold War) that took the citizens constitutional rights to organize advisory and a corrective referendum (where the government is legally bound to respect a referendum outcome) away. But also many others laws that should protect us against the government and or being able to sue them in case of any injustice have been taken away or so eroded that ordinary Dutch citizens have no way to protect themselves against the state, the EU, criminals and corporations.

Plus there is the thing that Dutch people in general take their "safety & freedom" for granted, like a societal collapse never can happen (even after the events that aspired during the pandy). Last but certainly not least I think that governments also should have a healthy fear of the population, and of course I'm not championing for a revolt; but in The Netherlands an ordinary person cant protect him/herself whether that is through a democratic legal means and/or a last resort measure. Of course politicians and high governments officials do have various legislative means and direct protection options to protect themselves and their families. And even when it comes to valid self defense Dutch law favors criminal the As much as i love The Netherlands, and a lot of things that are better organized here than else where, but when it comes to safety and security the population is pretty much on their own and will fall victim to all kinds of horrible things if God forbid; a societal collapse event does happen. So if you ask me, safety in The Netherlands is more artificial & superficial. Which also pretty much applies to the rest of Europe, Europeans talk big about social, medical, economical, consumer, labor, privacy, safety and other (constitutional) rights. But the harsh truth is that since Europe started to work towards the EU people passively and naively have allowed their various rights to be violated and destroyed,