Grüne on public safety

The Greens regard right-wing extremism as the greatest threat to the democratic rule of law. Hamburg's domestic intelligence agency should therefore focus clearly on this danger, and cross-agency cooperation should continue.

The Greens see right-wing extremism as the biggest danger to democracy. Hamburg's intelligence agency should watch right-wing extremists closely. Public agencies should keep working together. The NSU murders should be investigated further.

The platform wants to continue the Behördenkompetenznetzwerk Rechtsextremismus, a network in which Hamburg agencies and outside experts cooperate against right-wing extremism, racism and antisemitism. The state Office for the Protection of the Constitution should concentrate on threats from the far right. The platform calls the federal agency's classification of the AfD as a suspected extremist case an important step. The Greens want to critically follow the academic review of the NSU complex in Hamburg, including the murder of Süleyman Taşköprü, and draw lessons from it. Extremist activity of every kind is to be monitored and countered with repressive measures.

The Greens see Islamism as a growing danger to democracy and freedom. The domestic intelligence agency should get sufficient staff and resources, and Islamist groups should be monitored and banned once the evidence is solid.

The Greens see Islamism as a growing danger. The intelligence agency should get enough staff and money. It should watch suspicious groups closely. With clear proof, the state should ban these groups. But Muslims as a whole should not be under suspicion.

The platform describes the Islamist scene as hard to track and fast-changing, also because of geopolitical events. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution should therefore be adequately staffed and equipped. It names movements such as "Muslim Interaktiv" as well as mosques and cultural associations suspected of spreading Islamism. At the same time, the Greens stress that this must not lead to blanket suspicion of Muslims, the vast majority of whom, the platform says, live peacefully and identify with democracy.

The Greens want to counter Islamism mainly through integration and prevention. New strategies are to be developed with religious communities and educational initiatives, especially against its spread on social media.

The Greens want to keep young people from becoming Islamists. For this, Muslims should be well included in city life. New projects should be created with religious communities. Social workers should also reach young people online.

The platform regards the integration of people of Muslim faith or background as the most effective form of prevention. Existing prevention projects are to grow and new strategies added. The focus is on the spread of Islamist content via social media. Planned measures include projects to improve media literacy and stronger digital streetwork, in which professionals contact young people online.

The Greens want hate crime to be reported more often and recorded better. Police are to be made more aware of the issue, the statistics reformed and prevention in schools expanded.

Some people are attacked or insulted because of the group they belong to. This is called hate crime. The Greens want victims to report such acts more often. Police should be better trained for this. Schools should teach more about law and media.

The platform points to the "OHNe Hass" project, which lets people report offenses such as hate speech online. Police officers are to receive more awareness training so that victims are taken seriously. The police reporting system for politically motivated crime is to be reformed, giving more weight to victims' perspectives and adding new categories. The central state-security unit at the Prosecutor General's office is to be kept. The "Schule mit Recht" project is to grow considerably, and media literacy and civic education are to be strengthened from elementary school onward.

The Greens want to strengthen the police academy, open the police further to research and adapt training to new demands. The complaints office BMDA is to become better known, and its findings are to feed into initial and continuing training.

The Greens want the police to be well trained and well equipped. The police school should become stronger. Researchers should be able to study police work. There is an office for complaints about the police. More people should know about this office.

The platform names recruitment as a major task given demographics and the shortage of skilled workers; to that end, the skills needed in the future are to be analyzed. The police are to offer development opportunities over an entire career. Training is to cover more on dealing with people in acute mental health crises, for example. New equipment is to be checked regularly for effectiveness. According to the platform, the goal is for everyone in Hamburg to see the police as a trustworthy point of contact.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for a revision of the statistics on politically motivated crime (PMK), because their categories are criticized as outdated and blurry. In Hamburg, recording is to be modernized and a separate survey on victimization and reporting behavior continued.

The police count political crimes in a set of statistics. The Greens think the categories there are outdated. They want to improve the statistics at the federal level. Hamburg should keep running its own survey. It asks who became a victim and who reported a crime.

The reform is to be grounded in research and broadly involve those who work with the statistics every day. The aim is a set of statistics that reflects developments threatening democracy and is manageable for officers. The Hamburg-specific survey is to run alongside the nationwide study "Sicherheit und Kriminalität in Deutschland." The platform justifies this with the aim of a security policy based on facts and evidence.

The Greens expect automated data analysis and artificial intelligence to be used in security policy as well. They want to accompany new technologies constructively but critically and review them regularly. Decisions on police intervention are always to be made by humans.

The police use more and more computer technology. Soon artificial intelligence will be added. The Greens want to check this closely. A human should always decide whether the police step in. Not the computer.

The platform notes that digitalization eases officers' daily workload and gives them more time for their core tasks. New technology is to be evaluated on a regular basis. The party names the civil liberties of people in Hamburg as the yardstick.

The Greens want police to issue a receipt after stopping and checking a person, documenting the stop and the reasons for it. The proposal responds to the debate over racial profiling, meaning stops based on a person's outward appearance.

Police sometimes stop people in the street. The Greens want police to hand out a receipt. The receipt states why the person was stopped. People can then prove that the stop happened.

The receipts would be modeled on the federal rule. The platform justifies them with the recurring debate over whether skin color or facial features serve as grounds for police measures. The Greens also want to study and assess how effective certain special police zones are.

The Greens want to give the police more staff to uncover mafia-type structures and money laundering. In addition, a monitoring center run by civil society is to be set up. The platform regards organized crime as a threat to the state and to democracy.

Criminal gangs make a lot of money with drugs and human trafficking. The Greens want more police staff to work against these gangs. They also want a new monitoring center. It informs the public and advises people who are affected.

According to the platform, the Port of Hamburg has increasingly become a target of criminal groups, and drug seizures keep rising. The Greens back closer cooperation with partners in Europe and South America and the “Allianz Sicherer Hafen Hamburg” alliance of police, customs, the Federal Criminal Police Office and port businesses. The monitoring center is to inform the public, support those affected, analyze data and develop prevention proposals. The platform lists distorted real estate prices, harm to honest businesses and influence over decision-makers as effects of money laundering.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for stricter gun laws so that authorities can step in earlier when there are grounds for suspicion. They point to the mass shooting in Hamburg-Alsterdorf in March 2023 and want to keep weapons away from extremists.

The Greens want stricter rules for guns. They will push for this at the federal level. People who want a gun must prove their mental health regularly. Private people should no longer own semi-automatic guns.

Anyone applying for a gun license would have to show regularly that they are mentally stable, and this would also apply to sport shooters. Stockpiling ammunition would no longer be allowed. Private individuals would no longer be permitted to own semi-automatic weapons. The responsible authorities are to be able to act early when suspicion arises.

The Greens want to expand civil protection and disaster response at the city and district level and link it more closely with civil defense. The platform points to threats from the climate crisis such as flooding, drought and heat.

Hamburg should be better prepared for disasters. These include floods, drought and heat. The Greens want to modernize disaster protection. Everyone should be able to understand warnings.

Civil protection and disaster response are to be strengthened both at the state level and in the districts. Crisis information is to be accessible, multilingual and spread through different channels. In the platform's view, a resilient society needs crisis skills that go beyond the emergency services.

The Greens want to make better use of time in custody to prepare inmates for a life without crime. Short prison terms and jail time served in place of unpaid fines are to be avoided because the platform considers them too short for effective measures. Working in prisons is also to become more attractive.

Prisoners should be able to live without crime after release. The Greens want to prepare them better. They want to avoid very short prison terms. That time is too short to help people. Prison jobs should become more attractive for staff.

Recommendations from the academic evaluation of Hamburg's rehabilitation and victim support law are to be implemented step by step. The party wants to expand schooling and digital learning in prison. For staff, the Greens support introducing Heilfürsorge (employer-provided health care) and announce further steps on pay, career tracks and job profiles. These are to build on the results of the “Zukunftsberufsfeld Justiz” project.