this head of police of Brussels west says the 6 Brussels police departments shouldn't be united
http://www.hln.be/regio/nieuws-uit-...cial&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1459503795
he also says they should hire policemen who speak Arabic
shouldn't the immigrants learn French or Dutch?
they don't want a proper police force, they want somebocy in a uniform who is 'friend' with everybody in the neighbourhood
and forgives them all their crimes if they promise not to do it any more
it is this approach which lasts allready 30 years that made the Brussels suburbs rotten
Did he give a rationale for not unifying the police departments? He must have one. Does he understand the urgency of having a unified anti-terrorist team or at least sharing information?
Hiring police who speak Arabic is actually an effective police tool. The goal is to build a rapport with the inhabitants, to gain trust, to develop informants etc. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be learning Flemish. Actually, from what I've been reading, the younger generation supposedly doesn't speak very good Arabic, and speaks better Flemish. Isn't that correct?
Just to address a few things that were said upthread...it's obviously true that more people have died in car accidents than from terrorism, a point that was made by President Obama just this week, but as societies, as people, we've accepted the risk that some people will die in car accidents for the benefit we derive from driving cars. To put it in a very cold blooded manner, car accidents don't stop society in its tracks. If people are afraid to use airplanes, or buses, or trains, it will indeed stop society in its tracks.
There's also an additional, very important factor to consider. How many people die from cancer every year, or heart attacks? Obviously, more than from terrorism, by many orders of magnitude. People are traumatized by death, that's a given, but it is indeed different when you know that your loved one, your friend, your neighbor was killed, not by a natural disease process or an accident but by the malign, deliberate act of someone who didn't even know him. There's also an order of magnitude difference between learning that your husband died in a car accident and learning that on a morning just like any other he went to work, a plane was deliberately flown into his building, and he calls you to tell you how much he loves you and he's now going to jump out of the building because he can't face being burned to death. Oh, and they never identify enough of him to bury. These are the kinds of things that spread panic.
Plus, does anyone doubt that if they could get their hands on a biologic or a dirty bomb they wouldn't use it?
So, with all due respect to people who have raised this issue, it's really beside the point.
Oh, I don't want to speak for LeBrok, but I thought he meant that we should try to divide the Muslim world by forging an alliance with moderate Muslims.