The police appointed the man previously used by municipalities to infiltrate mosques to help tackle racism, discrimination, and exclusion in the police organization. Mosque administrators are stunned. Controle Alt Delete, an organization that fights ethnic profiling and police brutality, broke off its talks with the police over the appointment, AD reports.
Last year, 24 people in the Netherlands died in police custody, according to new figures by Controle Alt Delete. That is eleven more deaths in police custody than the year before, said the organization that fights against ethnic profiling, among other things. The vast majority of people who died in police custody in the Netherlands in recent years were ethnically diverse.