Thread by @AlisonBlunt

"This is no longer the police force I started with" Corona emergency call from a police officer. 23.12.20 reitschuster.de/post/das-ist-n…
"After my arrest at Berlin's Jannowitzbrücke S-Bahn station on Sunday, a police officer (m/f/d) contacted me. His/her request: "I want to.."

.."tell you what it's like in the police at the moment." What he (I'll stick to the male form for the sake of simplicity) told me shocked me. "For years, de-escalation was always the order of the day, restraint, not taking tough action, especially when dealing with criminals,.."

.."and especially when there is any kind of migration background. Now, in the course of the Corona measures, that has completely changed," the officer reports: "There are instructions from politics to really crack down, law and order, zero tolerance.
But even this .."

.."tough crackdown is very selective, he says: "When it comes to Corona protests, i.e. rallies against the Corona policy, there is framing in advance by the politicians and the higher management levels, the colleagues are told before the operation what evil and confused.."

.."people are on the streets, Corona deniers and conspiracy theorists are still the most harmless words that are used. It's downright incitement, and that also explains the harsh approach," says the officer: "It's completely different with counter-demonstrations and.."

.."left-wing demonstrations: they say you can turn a blind eye. I've seen that myself, how the greatest severity is shown with some, and the opposite with others. This is no longer the police as I know it, which is politically neutral.
The same politicians who tied our hands.."

.."often enough in the fight against crime, especially with a migration background, who always slowed us down, who pushed the statistics down, are now inciting us, they now want high numbers of reports, they now want a strong crackdown, I don't recognise the service! A message.."

.."comes in that 15 people are sitting together in a house somewhere, and then you go out with a mental attitude and an approach as if it were a drug dealer's house, where you have to storm into the house because of acute urgency. This is a terrible level of mental escalation.."

.."that we are experiencing, and it is being deliberately set in motion and pursued by politicians! It scares me! Where is this not supposed to lead?
The majority of the officers are uninformed and do not ask questions, he says: "They adopt the enemy images that are drummed.."

.."into them. When they get home, they watch the news and are confirmed in their belief that they only act against dangerous or confused people! I find it particularly frightening that the management level within the police is failing! Those who have long experience and .."

.."should be citizens in uniform, who often have nothing to lose because they have been promoted! Instead of even asking critical questions, there is humping upwards and kicking downwards!
If many critics of the Corona measures were hoping that there would be resistance to.."

..the tough course within the police, that would be a gross misjudgement, the officer said: "In my environment, I would say that if I am very optimistic, a maximum of 15 per cent question critically, more likely ten and less per cent. The majority just run with it without.."

.."giving it a second thought. Orders are orders. Everything is only considered from a police tactical point of view. The processing of the operation or the success of the police intervention is in the foreground, no matter how abstruse the content. The majority is not at all.."

.."aware that it is about completely different things.
The police officer does not accept that the officers are massively overworked: "Many operations have been cancelled, such as football matches and other large-scale operations. The workload is within limits. No one who.."

.."loses his nerve or is too hard on the job can talk himself out of being overworked."
PS: This post has been proof-read by the officer & authorised as it stands - this was very important to me in order to authentically reflect his/her thoughts & observations down to .."

.."the last detail.
PS: See here a video of a police operation in Erfurt last week. According to the creator of the video, a demonstrator was injured by the police, a doctor who was present tried to help and was arrested himself."


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