Over the last couple of days....things have gotten hyped up over in Frankfurt with accusations of five local cops being racists or xenophobic. An official investigation is going on, which revolves around their communications (the five cops) on WhatsApp. The pro-asylum agenda folks? They are making this into a big deal.
Yesterday, I noticed a guest commentary piece on Focus (the German news magazine) and it talked to one odd feature of this anti-foreigner discussion with the police accused. You see....if you walked around German urban areas and wanted to know of the folks who were mostly facing foreigners on a daily basis and the various issues (some criminal....some threatening) that were in public sight....it's NOT the politicians or journalists that you'd talk to. It's the police.
I often comment on the German police and the amount of professionalism that you encounter. Between training and the mandate that they travel in pairs....it's awful rare that you see bad behavior by the police.
But I think if you compared the daily atmosphere and stress of say the 1980s, against the landscape of 2018....most German cops would tell you that it's dramatically different.
Germans get a healthy 'dose' of respect and generally don't disregard laws or public safety. In some ways, the police are a bit shocked at times when their authority is challenged or when someone tries to 'out-argue' them on the nature of the law.
I look at the Frankfurt episode and kinda wonder if you dig into anti-asylum feelings within the city police department.....you might find more than ninety-percent having an unfriendly feeling toward immigration and integration. The pro-asylum folks? They will eventually come around and suggest mandatory 'get-friendly-on-immigrants' classes and find a disenchanted crowd of police facing them.
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