Rene says, Dutch police officers are sometimes too soft. “Sometimes they say, ‘Please don’t punish them, you have to help them.’ And I have to make sure that they do punish them, because otherwise it can’t help. I have to motivate those police officers to stick to the program. If you only do it with care it’s not going to succeed. It’s about carrots and sticks. At some point there are some people who do not want to or are not able to listen. For them there are psychiatric examinations. And some people are just bad. Those people go to jail. Not forever. But if they do bad things they go to jail
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