AfD on public safety

Within its first 100 days, the AfD wants a state registry of repeat offenders and police preventive detention modeled on Bavaria. Prosecutors would have to seek prison without probation for repeated violent offenses. Foreigners who commit crimes would be deported without exception.

The AfD wants to be tougher on violent offenders. The state should keep a list of repeat offenders. Police should be able to lock up dangerous people in advance. People who are violent again and again should go to prison. Foreign criminals should have to leave.

The platform points to a 12.3 percent rise in violent crime in public spaces to more than 10,000 cases in 2023. It plans a state-run registry of repeat offenders and preventive detention for dangerous violent offenders. Guidelines for prosecutors would be changed so that they must push for prison sentences without probation in cases of repeated violence. The AfD says the aim is to take habitual violent offenders off the streets.

The AfD wants to hire noticeably more police officers, especially in cities with high crime rates, and to increase police presence in rural areas. Officers are also to receive tasers and bodycams. The program justifies this with what it sees as a worsening security situation.

The AfD wants to hire more police officers. This applies most to cities with a lot of crime. The police should also be seen more often in rural areas. Officers should get tasers and body cameras.

Police stations and posts in rural areas are to be strengthened in staff and organization so that response times are short; station structures, shift models and patrols are to be reviewed. Cities and towns are to be involved through mandatory security conferences, joint prevention plans and coordinated operations. Tasers and bodycams are meant to let officers stop aggressive offenders without using firearms. The program also calls for an efficiency drive with less bureaucracy, more digitalization and more staff. As an example of a loss of control, the AfD cites the 2020 riots in Stuttgart.

The AfD calls for a statewide plan that enables the police to detect and stop drones. According to the program, the state police currently lack the technology, clear responsibilities and legal basis to do so.

The AfD wants a plan against dangerous drones. Drones are small aircraft without a pilot. The police should be able to find and stop them. For this, they should get new technology and clear legal powers.

The riot police and the helicopter squadron are to receive detection and defense systems, including radar, radio and optical detection and electronic countermeasures. The police are to get legally sound powers to intervene, especially near sensitive sites, large events and critical infrastructure. A statewide situation picture is to be built together with federal agencies and local public order services. Specialized units are to be trained. The program refers to an assessment by the German Police Union.

The AfD calls for tough action against violent extremists, whether far-left, far-right or Islamist. People classified as terrorist threats are to be detained and deported. Public money for organizations the party regards as far-left extremist is to be cut off.

The AfD wants tough action against violent extremists. This applies to left-wing, right-wing and Islamist offenders. Dangerous people should be put in detention. The state should deport them. Far-left groups should no longer get tax money.

The program sees far-left extremism as a growing problem and Islamic extremism as the greatest current danger; among other things it points to the 2024 murder of a police officer in Mannheim. The channels through which tax money reaches far-left groups are to be disclosed and closed. Antisemitism, which the AfD describes as Islamic in character and imported, is to be fought. Immigration that the program calls uncontrolled is to end immediately because extremists are said to enter this way. The goal is for public events to be possible again without major security measures.