Een scooterrijder is zondagavond op de Ary Prinslaan in Schiedam ten val gekomen. De hulpdiensten kwamen met spoed ter plekke.
In een woning aan de Pluvierstraat in Dordrecht is zondagavond een overleden persoon aangetroffen. De politie is de hele nacht bezig geweest met onderzoek.
In een woning aan de Pluvierstraat in Dordrecht is zondagavond een overleden persoon aangetroffen.
Een jongen is woensdagavond 30 september 2026 mishandeld bij het skatepark in Sommelsdijk. Volgens een oproep van zijn familie werd hij door meerdere jongens tegen de grond gewerkt, waarna hij werd geslagen en geschopt. De familie roept op om camerabeelden van het incident met de politie te delen.
Deze week kregen we een mail van een lezer met een vraag over een cartoon. Eind 2002 of begin 2003 zat hij in de trein van Amsterdam naar Haarlem. Hij was één station te lang blijven zitten en had daarmee de pech precies de verkeerde conducteur tegen te komen. De conducteur van dienst was Wouter Bos.
Bos was net gekozen tot lijsttrekker van de PvdA en liep voor het televisieprogramma Netwerk een dag mee als conducteur. Een camera volgde hem. En dus werd ook vastgelegd hoe onze correspondent een boete kreeg omdat hij te ver was doorgereisd.
Toen duidelijk werd wat er aan de hand was, ontsnapte hem voor de camera een welgemeend: ‘Oh, kut!’ op primetime televisie.
De volgende dag kreeg hij het naar eigen zeggen te verduren van zijn klasgenoten én zijn negentigjarige oma.
Maar daarmee was de zaak nog niet voorbij. Aan het eind van die dag viel NRC op de mat. Achterop stond Fokke & Sukke:
Fokke & Sukke hebben geen kaartje
‘Kut, de conducteur!’
‘Laat maar joh, is toch weer zo’n lijsttrekker.’
De lezer, laten we hem Daniel noemen, knipte de cartoon uit en hing hem bij zijn ouders op het prikbord. Daar bleef hij jarenlang hangen, totdat het inmiddels volledig vergeelde krantenpapier uiteindelijk de geest gaf.
Ruim twintig jaar later mailde hij ons met de vraag of wij de oorspronkelijke tekening misschien nog hadden. En zo blijkt een dag waarop je wordt beboet in de trein, op televisie vloekt, wordt uitgelachen door je klasgenoten en op je kop krijgt van je oma achteraf toch een tamelijk historische dag te kunnen zijn.
De cartoon hebben we in ieder geval nog.
Kom dinsdagavond 6 okt a.s. naar ons interview in Amsterdam: https://www.aanmelder.nl/178671/alumniweek2026?language=nl
Zondagochtend begon de ontruiming van het kamp op het El Trampolín-strand. Al meer dan twee maanden leefden daar rond de drieduizend mensen onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is standing against Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential race
The incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is up against Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for plotting a military coup. The president in Brazil is directly elected, and candidates need more than 50% of the vote to avoid a second round. Polls close at 17.00 BRT / 21.00 BST.
Continue reading...Indianapolis Colts 30-13 Washington Commanders
Treylon Burks scores 47-yard TD for Washington
“Welcome to the NFL’s home away from home,” was the rallying cry from former running back and current in-stadium hype man Ronde Barber before the league’s 19th year holidaying in the UK began. And welcome Washington’s injury bug which must have stowed away on the flight to London. The mighty Commanders defense that overwhelmed the Colts at times could not overcome having another quarterback knocked out of commission. Indianapolis capitalised on the misfortune with crafty running back Jonathan Taylor carrying them to a 30-13 victory.
The Commanders were already missing starting quarterback Jayden Daniels with an elbow injury and their pesky interloper wasn’t satisfied that Washington had endured enough torment. The game-defining moment came early as a knee injury forced backup passer Marcus Mariota out of the contest after a strong start. Rookie third-stringer Athan Kaliakmanis replaced him and though he delivered the play of the game with an incredible showcase of vision and accuracy on a 47-yard touchdown throw, it was too much, too soon for the 23-year-old.
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Car thefts in San Francisco are down almost 59% for the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same months in 2022, according to analysis of police department statistics by NPR's Planet Money — and car break-ins are down more than 82%.
"San Francisco's law enforcement leaders tell us that greater use of surveillance technology — including a controversial, AI-powered license plate camera system made by Flock Safety — has been crucial to this drop in car crime."
How much credit does Flock actually deserve...? [In July of 2022, San Francisco District Attorney] Jenkins began taking a more aggressive approach to prosecuting people accused of crimes. Meanwhile, the SFPD beefed up its tactics to fight car thefts and break-ins. In 2023, for example, the police increased patrols in tourist areas known for car break-ins and used "bait cars" to catch and build cases against organized car burglars. But, Jenkins says, "one of the most important factors" behind the drop in crime came when the city introduced new crime-fighting technology. In March 2024, San Francisco voters approved Proposition E, which, among other provisions, made it easier for SFPD to use drones and high-tech surveillance cameras. That same month, the SFPD began installing Flock cameras in strategic locations... In a statement to Planet Money, a spokesperson for the SFPD said, "ALPR has been instrumental in driving down crime in San Francisco. These tools enable our officers to identify crime vehicles with precision, and ALPR is assisting in reducing crimes that were previously very challenging to solve, like auto burglaries."
Jenkins described how Flock cameras and drones can work together to catch suspected criminals. In one case the SFPD publicized, the department says Flock cameras spotted a moving vehicle linked to an auto burglary the previous day and alerted officers. Officers deployed a drone, which flew in from above and then began recording suspects in real time as they smashed windows and stole luggage out of a parked SUV. The police then moved in and arrested them. They can do all this, Jenkins says, "without putting innocent people in danger with dangerous police chases." Meanwhile, the surveillance system creates an evidence trail that [Jenkins'] office can use to prosecute suspected criminals... Jenkins also believes high-tech surveillance helps deter crime, although that's harder to prove...
The most ambitious study of Flock's system so far is a recent one by University of South Carolina crime researchers Ian Adams and Scott Mourtgos. They analyzed data from 216 law enforcement agencies that introduced Flock cameras, comparing crime trends with places that had not adopted Flock. They found that deploying Flock cameras was associated with an 11% drop in car thefts in the first year. This is only one study, and it has yet to be peer-reviewed. It's also not a randomized controlled trial, the gold standard for finding the actual causal effect of something. Other factors, beyond Flock, could still help explain the decline.
That study attempted to control for variables, the article points out — like how San Francisco's decline coincided with a broader drop in crime across American cities as America emerged from the pandemic...
But the article also notes another worry shared by "countless citizens" and political leaders. Are these systems handing too much power to law enforcement to "invade our privacy, trace our whereabouts, and stomp on our civil liberties."
"San Francisco's law enforcement leaders tell us that greater use of surveillance technology — including a controversial, AI-powered license plate camera system made by Flock Safety — has been crucial to this drop in car crime."
How much credit does Flock actually deserve...? [In July of 2022, San Francisco District Attorney] Jenkins began taking a more aggressive approach to prosecuting people accused of crimes. Meanwhile, the SFPD beefed up its tactics to fight car thefts and break-ins. In 2023, for example, the police increased patrols in tourist areas known for car break-ins and used "bait cars" to catch and build cases against organized car burglars. But, Jenkins says, "one of the most important factors" behind the drop in crime came when the city introduced new crime-fighting technology. In March 2024, San Francisco voters approved Proposition E, which, among other provisions, made it easier for SFPD to use drones and high-tech surveillance cameras. That same month, the SFPD began installing Flock cameras in strategic locations... In a statement to Planet Money, a spokesperson for the SFPD said, "ALPR has been instrumental in driving down crime in San Francisco. These tools enable our officers to identify crime vehicles with precision, and ALPR is assisting in reducing crimes that were previously very challenging to solve, like auto burglaries."
Jenkins described how Flock cameras and drones can work together to catch suspected criminals. In one case the SFPD publicized, the department says Flock cameras spotted a moving vehicle linked to an auto burglary the previous day and alerted officers. Officers deployed a drone, which flew in from above and then began recording suspects in real time as they smashed windows and stole luggage out of a parked SUV. The police then moved in and arrested them. They can do all this, Jenkins says, "without putting innocent people in danger with dangerous police chases." Meanwhile, the surveillance system creates an evidence trail that [Jenkins'] office can use to prosecute suspected criminals... Jenkins also believes high-tech surveillance helps deter crime, although that's harder to prove...
The most ambitious study of Flock's system so far is a recent one by University of South Carolina crime researchers Ian Adams and Scott Mourtgos. They analyzed data from 216 law enforcement agencies that introduced Flock cameras, comparing crime trends with places that had not adopted Flock. They found that deploying Flock cameras was associated with an 11% drop in car thefts in the first year. This is only one study, and it has yet to be peer-reviewed. It's also not a randomized controlled trial, the gold standard for finding the actual causal effect of something. Other factors, beyond Flock, could still help explain the decline.
That study attempted to control for variables, the article points out — like how San Francisco's decline coincided with a broader drop in crime across American cities as America emerged from the pandemic...
But the article also notes another worry shared by "countless citizens" and political leaders. Are these systems handing too much power to law enforcement to "invade our privacy, trace our whereabouts, and stomp on our civil liberties."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
We gaan naar Eindhoven (ja) voor de laatste interland in een eigenlijk veel te lange interlandbreak. Waar staan Onze Jongens na drie wedstrijden Nations League? Op plek 2. Achter de Grieken, die de tegenstander Des Doods van de poule bleken maar er in de voorgaande wedstrijd niet in slaagden van Oranje te winnen. Zij spelen vanavond opnieuw tegen de Duitsers en wij mogen het op zijn Grieks doen met de Bonnie Blue van de groep, Servië. De vierde van het toernooi maar ook de vierde van Xavi als bondscoach, dus na vandaag mag u officieel roepen dat een onervaren buitenlander altijd al een belachelijk zwaktebod was, of dat de man Oranje gaat laten voetballen als prime Barça en ons de wereldbeker zal bezorgen. Aftrap 20:45!
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The four-time World Champion won his first race of the 2026 season at Sepang.