Radicalization Series – Part I: The slippery slope of ethnic profiling
The report, Ethnic Profiling in the European Union: Pervasive, Ineffective, and Discriminatory, details widespread profiling in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and other EU member states. Much of the counterradicalization policies has been based on the idea of a slippery slope but in practice it is ethnic profiling that resembles slippery slope and is often more of a public relations stunt than a real response to crime and radicalization. I will discuss the report briefly here and give extensive quotes based upon the Dutch situation. This is part one of a series of entries on the issue of radicalization.