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Brickbat: Hotline Bling

Charles Oliver | 1.31.2018 4:00 AM

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Police in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, say they will begin taking clothes and jewelry off of young people if they look like they can't afford them. Cops say they want to keep criminals from profiting from their crimes. Critics say it will just lead to racial profiling.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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