Party Vibe

Even here at smaller events we might just see a bobby or two on the doors at the start (who if its a smaller town event usually get redeployed to deal with the pissheads as they are the night time economy unit). TBH they are only interested in stopping peopel who are so fucked they are a danger to others and themselves, medium level dealers who might start turf wars and also preventing DUI which kills way more people than drugs.

There are both uniform and undercover cops in Netherlands but they are more discreet. The undercover ones are a mixture of pretty blond women and tattooed “muscle mary” and are only deployed to get young dealers of both genders and sexualities. Even then the penalty is confiscation of profits and remaining drugs and a caution rather than prison unless the pills are dangerous stuff like PMA.

I thought he was just “speaking American”.

TBH I don’t care two shits if he agrees with me or not, but trying to deny the 15 year old girl died even after widespread international reporting a Court judgment and a payment to her famly by the promoters is insulting to her memory and her family.

Even if she “only” got ill after leaving the premises that is irrelevant worldwide, the licensing authorities would take into account the fact she attended the music event. a few days ago I went through 20MB of data from my own Council about the night time economy and incidents at licensed premises. it wasn’t very interesting reading at all but I found no evidence of overreaction or excessive control, merely carefully gathered facts which the Council, Police and Health authorities had painstakingly worked together over months to gather, and all 12 evidence documents were shared to the public with nothing hidden.

Even then the document said that there is a right for people to have such events.

In Denmark (just over the North sea) they safely have a similarly large festival, most of it free, spread across several locations and only a few crowns to enter if there is an entry cost. 800 volunteers keep everyone safe, the Police only stay on the sidelines in case there is a genuine emergency.