<story><title>Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-crime-reporter-de-vries-dies-after-being-shot-rtl-news-2021-07-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the-dude</author><text>As a Dutch citizen I am bit worried about what they will do to obtain an alternative income stream. I am not really harmed by the drug trade.&lt;p&gt;I would be harmed by robberies on the street or in the home.</text></item><item><author>s_dev</author><text>Hopefully this has a &amp;#x27;Veronica Guerin&amp;#x27; effect.&lt;p&gt;An Irish crime reporter was killed for being too curious by drug bosses. The subsequent Garda investigation was so intense and far reaching that it&amp;#x27;s estimated the the drug operations lost huge money over the coming years -- the Irish state implemented news laws and even the creation of &amp;#x27;Criminal Assets Bureau&amp;#x27; came from Veronicas death.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Veronica_Guerin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Veronica_Guerin&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scandox</author><text>You are harmed by the drug trade. You live in a society where a totally unregulated industry allows bad people to get very rich and exercise illegitimate power through violence and corruption.&lt;p&gt;You live in a society where young people become addicts and rob and harm the people they love and then die prematurely.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-crime-reporter-de-vries-dies-after-being-shot-rtl-news-2021-07-15/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the-dude</author><text>As a Dutch citizen I am bit worried about what they will do to obtain an alternative income stream. I am not really harmed by the drug trade.&lt;p&gt;I would be harmed by robberies on the street or in the home.</text></item><item><author>s_dev</author><text>Hopefully this has a &amp;#x27;Veronica Guerin&amp;#x27; effect.&lt;p&gt;An Irish crime reporter was killed for being too curious by drug bosses. The subsequent Garda investigation was so intense and far reaching that it&amp;#x27;s estimated the the drug operations lost huge money over the coming years -- the Irish state implemented news laws and even the creation of &amp;#x27;Criminal Assets Bureau&amp;#x27; came from Veronicas death.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Veronica_Guerin&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Veronica_Guerin&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trentnix</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I am not really harmed by the drug trade. I would be harmed by robberies on the street or in the home.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latter comes packaged with the former.</text></comment>