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Germany: Review: Police & racism

01 May 1995

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Review: Hilfe, Polizei - Fremdenfeindlichkeit bei Deutschlands Ordnungshütern (Help-Police! Racism amongst the keepers of law and order in Germany). Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP/Otto Diederichs. Elefanten Press Verlag Gmbh, Berlin, 1995. ISBN 3 88520 551 3. The police in Germany are increasingly making the headlines: images of Rostock and Magdeburg went round the world, showing a police force either unable or unwilling to cope with brutal racist violence directed at Vietnamese, Turkish and African people. This book consists of a series of essays by researchers who have studied police racism and reveals the brutal treatment migrants have received at the hands of the police in many German towns and cities. It shows that the police verbally and physically abuse migrants in the belief that their uniform protects them from any legal consequences. Included are reports from inside the police and comparisons with France and the Netherlands. The book makes depressing reading, even to someone who has closely followed the developments under discussion.

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