ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses three cases: a fire in a detention centre in the Netherlands, killing eleven people and injuring fifteen, a riot at a music festival, in which the police had to use force, killing one person, and the attack on the Dutch queen, which killed eight people. In each of these cases a visual reconstruction was created in order to evaluate the policy made in these cases. It elaborates on the influence these visual events had on the course, content and outcome of the policy evaluation process using the conceptual framework. The chapter describes the societal and political context in which the three cases occured. Evaluation is another phase in the policy cycle, in which visual technologies can be used to create and distribute visual events that help policy makers, politicians and the public to assess whether a policy programme has been successfully implemented.
