http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=13&story_id=15372&name=Crime+levels+down+for+fifth+year+in+Amsterdam
"Despite the shocking murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh last November, crime levels were actually down for the fifth year running in Amsterdam, the capital's police chief has confirmed.
There were 27 murders in the Dutch capital in 2004, compared with 43 the year earlier, police chief Bernard Welten said when unveiling his annual report.
Complaints of crime made to police fell by 10 percent to 96,000 last year, but Welten noted that 'disappointingly' the police monitor survey noted a 3 percent drop in the public's willingness to report crime."
