Verdacht

We think we know what ethnic profiling is but what does it feel like Dutch citizens report on at times bizarre and disconcerting experiences with police checks where their skin colour routinely makes them suspicious For years the police has been aiming to proactively execute security checks in order to arrest more riffraff But practise shows that Dutch people with a migration background are regularly stopped without any suspicion of criminal offences Poignantly the teacher the soldier the lawyer the rapper the fellow police officer and other coloured Dutchmen talk about helplessness frustration humiliation alienation anger and what it feels like to be a suspect from the start Wry but insightful indictment of ethnic profiling