AfD on public safety

The AfD wants to give Hamburg's police more money, staff and equipment. Body cameras are to be used across the force and tasers trialed, to protect officers and emergency workers from attacks.

The AfD wants more money and more staff for the police. Officers should wear small body cameras everywhere. Stun guns should also be tested. This should protect police and rescue workers.

The police are to be strengthened in funding, personnel and equipment. The AfD wants to curb the growing number of attacks on police and emergency workers. Body cameras are to be used comprehensively, partly so that cases can be closed faster with solid evidence. The party also supports trials of tasers.

The AfD wants more positions for judges, prosecutors and court staff and a digitalized justice system. Anyone who violates probation conditions should have to serve their sentence immediately.

The AfD wants more judges and prosecutors in Hamburg. Courts should work more digitally. Some offenders get probation. They must follow certain rules. Anyone who breaks these rules should go to prison right away.

The program accuses the Senate of cutting or leaving vacant positions in courts and prosecution offices. As a result, it says, cases drag on for years and suspects are released from pretrial detention. The AfD calls for new positions and digitalization of the judiciary. Probation conditions are to be monitored and violations met with immediate imprisonment.

The AfD wants to reinstate the district public order service (BOD) to relieve what it sees as an overburdened police force of non-sovereign tasks. Working with the city sanitation department, it would keep the city orderly and clean.

The AfD wants to bring back the district order service. It should keep the city orderly and clean. It works together with the city cleaning service. Then the police have more time for criminals.

The program cites police overtime and overload and petty crime that often goes unprosecuted. Based on other states' experience, staff could be trained in three months. The service is not to be used for parking enforcement. The AfD wants it to be adequately staffed.

The AfD considers German criminal law too lenient and court rulings too offender-friendly. It wants legal training to sensitize future judges and prosecutors differently and to prevent lenient sentences through changes in the law.

The AfD thinks punishments in Germany are too mild. Future judges should learn to think more about victims. The AfD wants laws against sentences that are too mild. Judges would then have less freedom to decide.

The program criticizes the large number of suspended sentences and fines and cites a ruling on a gang rape in Hamburg's Stadtpark. Legal training in Hamburg is to stress that criminal law must serve social peace. Sentencing should not focus only on the offender. Where the AfD sees a risk of inappropriately lenient rulings, judges' discretion is to be restricted by law.

Following the "Neukölln model," the AfD wants young offenders tried quickly in simplified proceedings. Juvenile criminal law should no longer apply to 18- to 20-year-olds, and the party is open to lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 12.

Young offenders should go to court faster. The model comes from Berlin-Neukölln. People aged 18 to 20 should be punished like adults. The AfD is open to punishing children from age 12.

Simplified juvenile proceedings under Section 76 of the Juvenile Court Act are to be used in Hamburg whenever needed. Police, prosecutors and courts are to cooperate closely for this. For serious offenses, the AfD favors immediate charges and detention. At the federal level it wants young adults no longer sentenced under juvenile law and is open to criminal responsibility from age 12.

The AfD wants more state funding to fight left-wing extremism and Islamism. Initiatives against them are to be funded on par with those against right-wing extremism, and each form of extremism is to get its own state program.

The AfD wants to spend more money against left-wing extremism and Islamism. Islamism means using religion for extreme politics. Groups fighting these dangers should get as much money as groups against right-wing extremism. All schools should teach about it.

Advisory networks are to provide coordinated educational work against extremism at all Hamburg schools. Associations and organizations raising awareness of Islamism and left-wing extremism are to receive the same financial support as those against right-wing extremism. A centrally managed state program is to be set up for each of left-wing extremism, right-wing extremism, antisemitism and Islamism. Victims of Islamist and far-left activities are to be actively protected.

The AfD wants to have the left-wing center Rote Flora in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel cleared. It sees the building as the command center of the autonomist scene and considers its occupation of over 30 years largely illegal.

The Rote Flora is a left-wing center in Hamburg. The AfD wants to clear the building. It says the left-wing scene is run from there. The AfD thinks its use is not legal.

According to the program, the Rote Flora helped enable actions during the G20 summit. The AfD considers the building to have been essentially illegally occupied for more than 30 years. It opposes the Senate's efforts to give its use a legal basis.

The AfD wants violent Antifa groups to be classified as terrorist organizations. It sees these groups as part of Hamburg's far-left scene.

Antifa is a name for left-wing anti-fascist groups. Some of them are violent. The AfD wants these groups labeled as terror groups. Then the state could act more harshly against them.

The demand targets violent groups that identify with Antifa. They are to be treated as terrorist organizations. The program frames this as part of the fight against left-wing extremism.

The AfD wants Hamburg to adopt its own assembly law modeled on Bavaria's stricter law. Violent protests, blockades and counter-demonstrations are to be stopped more easily, and foreigners more easily excluded from assemblies.

Hamburg should get its own law for protests. The model is Bavaria's strict law. Violent protests should be easier to ban. Police should act harder against protests that were not registered. Foreigners should be easier to exclude from protests.

The program cites the G20 protest "Welcome to Hell" as an example. It should be easier to act against disrupters and counter-protests that block a previously registered assembly, as well as against unregistered gatherings. The AfD views freedom of assembly under Article 8 of the Basic Law as a right reserved for Germans and opposes mass gatherings of foreigners. Wearing medically unnecessary FFP2 masks at protests is not to be used to get around the ban on face coverings.

The AfD calls for immediately launching proceedings to ban the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH). It describes the IZH as Islamist and antisemitic and says it is directly controlled by Iran's regime.

The IZH is an Islamic center in Hamburg. The AfD wants it banned. It says the IZH is Islamist and hostile to Jews. The AfD says Iran controls it.

The program describes the IZH as an Islamist and antisemitic institution. It says the center is directly steered by the government in Tehran. Ban proceedings are to begin without delay.