Germany gazing into the abyss (federal elections)

[Husar]

What rightwing-hostility by the way? Violence is exclusive to the black hoodies, anti-facists lol@that

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6763506.html

http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/hetzja...icle_id=342199



http://www.fluchschrift.net/archiv/swansea.htm

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...in-hate-crime/

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/01/...people-travel/

https://www.thelocal.de/20160111/rac...ion-in-cologne

[Fragony]

That's disgusting but Ii can totally understand that people don'twant them near them, immigrant criime, especially sexual, is swept under the rug by the socalled institutionally racist police, that is a wellknown practise. These few racist attacks are incidents before becommig a trend, a shame they happen. Sexual violence is a trend.

Should have said 'almost exclusively'

[Husar]

That's disgusting but Ii can totally understand that people don'twant them near them, immigrant criime, especially sexual, is swept under the rug by the socalled institutionally racist police, that is a wellknown practise. These few racist attacks are incidents before becommig a trend, a shame they happen. Sexual violence is a trend.

Should have said 'almost exclusively'

Sounds like they sweep everything under the rug then: From the first link:

The country, which has led the humanitarian response to the refugee crisis, has recorded 222 attacks on homes but only a five-per-cent conviction rate.
[...]
Because attackers were targeting homes at night - often throwing Molotov cocktails from moving cars or heavy stones at windows - police say they are difficult to catch.

But a lack of police officers, particularly in eastern parts of Germany, has also been blamed.

Police really don't seem to catch anyone anymore...

Perhaps it really isn't so much an issue of whether police are way too racist or way too PC but just that politicians don't care and just lowered the budgets further and further. I think the CDU promised 15k more policemen. Makes me wonder whether that is even sufficient.
There were some other, more general reports about how many German cities had lost their medical examiners to budget cuts and the remaining ones are overworked, which slows down the police investigations etc.
Combine also with the reports about how Germany is the favourite retirement home for mafia bosses and killers as well as being a major hub for human trafficking and maybe the major issue is just that somehow our politicians seem to do absolutely nothing against criminals anymore as long as it's not an easily visible crime making the national headlines. And even then a lot of what they do may be completely unsuitable to solve or deter further crimes.

That's not to say it's terrible here, but if we continue to cripple the police force, maybe it will be. One of the articles mentions that security has been largely privatized, so private security is often guarding the refugee homes, and many of the guards are racists themselves. In other words, it might just be neoliberalism at work once again... Privatize the hell out of everything and then blame it on something else and hope people forget before you actually have to do something about it. Given Merkel's approval rating it appears to be a viable tactic...