Schlagwort: Frankfurt/Main
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Police violence in Germany is mostly male and more often goes unpunished, research project finds
About 3300 victims participated in a study on excessive violence by police officers. The violence workers also report on their own assaults. It is mainly male police officers up to 30 years of age who use excessive force on duty. Those affected are also predominantly male and on average 26 years old. An exception are […]
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Taser at the German Federal Police: Shooting from the back
In a year’s time, the German Ministry of the Interior could decide on the nationwide equipment of the Federal Police with electroshock weapons. Until then, the officers may in a pilot project shoot at children as well. At the beginning of September, the Federal Police Inspectorates Berlin-Ostbahnhof, Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt/Main-Hauptbahnhof started a pilot project on […]