It's a page three type statistic but it really says something about cops, German expectations, and public safety.
Over the past four years, physical and violent confrontations (assaults) on German cops have risen 25-percent. Every single day, they average across the sixteen states....32 attacks per day.
The landscape? Cops are now routinely deployed to hotspots....train-stations....mid-town shopping districts...fests...and neighborhoods with trends toward trouble. They have a general routine. Two cops working together, walking up to the questionable guy to ask for an ID and what the problem is. They have training to defuse confrontations, but if you look at how things are progressing, between alcohol and drugs influencing their behavior.....the situation spirals into potential problems.
Why the trend? Part of this is the responsibility of the mayor and city council, who have heat put upon them and they escalate this to the police chief 'to maintain order'. So the chief tells the cops where to deploy, how to aggressively handle things, and all of this is supposed to be a positive situation for the general public.
Influence of migrants and immigrants? If anything, they've gotten introduced to nifty drugs and alcohol, which they didn't have back in the old country. I won't go and suggest that they represent the bulk of this pattern because NO statistics exist to prove that point. You could go and suggest some non-Germans in the mix, but that's going to include Turks, Serbs, Russians, etc.
The potential that this attack-mentality will cause long term problems for the cops? Its a possibility. This isn't the normal world that German cops approaching 20 years of service had to face in the early part of their career. You now have to view situations where some drunk, or some hyped-up and argumentative guy believes he can get out of a situation by threatening the cop.
The public view? My guess is that most Germans are asking where this aggression came from, and why people aren't cooperative with the cops.
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