Number of violent deaths in Amsterdam this year already higher than 2023 total

A fatal shooting under the Westelijke Merwedekanaaldijk bridge in Amsterdam last week brought the total number of violent deaths in the city so far this year to 12. That is one more than the total number of people killed by violence in the Dutch capital in all of 2023.

Amsterdam police chief Frank Pauw acknowledged that the number of violent deaths is higher than last year, but he isn’t too concerned. At 12, he wouldn’t immediately call Amsterdam a “murder city,” Paauw said in an interview with AT5:

Also, because I know that if it is not a cluster of serious organized crime, these are the variables that can occur in a big city.

Criminologist Van der Kemp also stressed that the number of violent deaths has “decreased enormously” in recent decades.

https://nltimes.nl/2024/07/03/number-violent-deaths-amsterdam-year-already-higher-2023-total