If you followed last night's news (via public TV at ZDF or ARD), the number one news item is an investigation going on in the state of NRW (northwestern part of Germany). It centers on 29 state policemen....who engaged in 'chat' or emails in a extreme right-wing way. Basically, that's the entire pot of facts in the situation. The rest of the reports was the anger or frustration by politicians as they hyped up their views.
What'll happen with the 29? It would appear that some type of 'truth-commission' will come out of this, and decide upon each person's fate. Most probably will get dismissed. Most will sue in court to get their job back.
So you are left with this odd feeling.....behind the scenes, the police are probably telling their members to stay off social media....that various German investigators are infiltrating the system and looking for people to take down.
Why only right-wingers in the police and no left-wingers? I posed this question to my German wife, and she just started laughing. If you did have a left-wing intention.....there's zero chance you'd ever select the police profession as a job. She's probably correct about that view.
The problem I see here, and it's the same with the drug-scene, and the demonstration-scene....German policemen are the ones at the front of the situation....day in and day out.
They see daily problems and issues way more than politicians or journalists. If you took ten journalists around Germany and directed them to spend six months on duty and accompanying the police....at the end of that time....they'd have a totally different view on crime, demonstrations, drugs, and immigration. They'd also have a marginal view of prosecution behavior and the results rendered by the court system.
What'll happen out of the right-wing extremist deal over the police? I'm likely to predict sixteen different 'state-truth-commissions' coming to exist with a permanent job to spy on the police and eventually even get around to firemen as well.
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