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It was as if the Dutch Broadcast Foundation (NOS) waited for our article to appear last March before touching on the topic of drugs dumpings in the Netherlands again. And so it came to pass, two weeks after posting the article, that the NOS announced a new increase in the number of dumpings in 2019 (see the article in the NOS). The 292 dumpings recorded in 2019 do clearly exceed the count (207) of 2018. For the different datasets, discussed in the article, this result in a streak of length four (p=0.01), respectively three (p=0.04).  Statistically speaking we can now reject the null hypothesis, the drugs-related crime did not change over these years and conclude that something seriously bad is going on.