What do the parties in Berlin say on public safety?

The AfD wants to repeal Berlin's state anti-discrimination law immediately and give the police more powers. These include full video surveillance in high-crime areas, more stops without cause, and nighttime curfews for juvenile repeat offenders. It also wants to create a district police force.

The AfD wants more cameras in dangerous places. The police should be able to check people more often without a reason. Young people with many crimes should have to stay home at night. A law against unfair treatment by public offices should go. Each district should get its own police.

The AfD wants to hire more staff for the police, the justice system, and the fire department and to improve pay. Buildings and equipment are to be modernized, with heavy investment in the fire department. It rejects lower hiring standards and quotas.

The AfD wants more staff for the police, the courts, and the fire department. They should get better pay. Old buildings should be repaired. The fire department should get new vehicles and gear. Hiring standards should not be lowered.

The AfD wants crime statistics to show a migration background even for German suspects. It argues that these groups commit crimes at a disproportionate rate and that this must not be obscured. Antisemitic, anti-German, and anti-Christian incidents are also to be counted separately.

The police count crimes in statistics. The AfD wants more data there on where suspects come from. For Germans too, it should show if their family immigrated. Acts against Jews, Germans, and Christians should be counted separately.

The AfD wants to fight organized crime and clan structures mainly through deportations and by confiscating criminally acquired assets. A special unit at the immigration office is to pool expulsions of foreign criminals. The program describes organized crime as largely imported.

The AfD wants to act against criminal clans. A clan here means a large family that commits crimes. Foreign criminals with no right to stay should have to leave. A special team at the immigration office should speed this up. The state should take away money made from crime.

The AfD wants to reorganize Berlin's justice system, which it sees as overloaded, and to toughen criminal law. Children would be criminally responsible from age 12, and adult criminal law would always apply from 18. For knife attacks it demands harsher penalties and fast-track proceedings.

The AfD wants to make Berlin's courts faster. Children should be punishable from age 12. Today that starts at age 14. Anyone who is 18 should be punished like an adult. Knife attacks should get harsher sentences.

The AfD wants to cut funding for organizations it classifies as left-wing extremist or as left-wing front groups. Islamist extremism is to be monitored more closely, and people deemed dangerous are to be deported even to Syria and Afghanistan. It demands tougher penalties for attacks on critical infrastructure.

The AfD wants to act against extremists. Extremists reject democracy. Left-wing groups should get no more money from the state. The state should watch Islamists more closely. Dangerous foreigners should be deported.

The AfD wants to expand Berlin's disaster preparedness and better protect critical infrastructure. Hospitals, nursing homes, and other key facilities are to get binding plans for power outages and sabotage. The program points to attacks on the power supply that it says exposed shortcomings.

The AfD wants Berlin to be better prepared for emergencies. One example is a long power outage. Hospitals and nursing homes should have backup power and emergency plans. There should be more sirens. Sirens warn people when there is danger.

The AfD wants to close mosques it considers hostile to the constitution and ban the associations behind them. Mosques would no longer be allowed to receive money from abroad. The platform sees Islamism and religious fundamentalism as a growing threat to security, freedom, and social cohesion in Berlin.

The AfD wants to close some mosques. It means mosques that work against the constitution. Mosques should get no money from other countries. The AfD sees Islamism as a danger for Berlin.

The AfD wants to tackle litter, graffiti and neglect in public spaces. Public order offices would operate around the clock, littering hotspots would be monitored by video, and homeless camps and abandoned cars would be cleared quickly.

The AfD wants to make Berlin cleaner. The public order offices should work day and night. Places with a lot of trash should get cameras. Teams should remove trash and graffiti quickly. Camps of homeless people should be cleared.

The CDU wants to give Berlin's police more staff, better equipment and renovated buildings. Officers are to be freed from paperwork so they can focus on their core duties.

The CDU wants a stronger police force in Berlin. There should be more officers. Their equipment should be better. Run-down police stations should be fixed. Police should have less paperwork.

The CDU wants police to be able to designate areas as high-crime locations more quickly so they can stop people there without specific suspicion. All operational units are also to be equipped with Tasers.

The police should get more powers. They should be able to label places as dangerous faster. There they may check people without suspicion. All officers on duty should get Tasers. A Taser is an electric shock device.

The CDU wants to expand video surveillance at all high-crime locations, including the use of intelligent systems. An anti-theft program is to put cameras in busy public places.

The CDU wants more cameras in Berlin. They should be at all places with a lot of crime. Smart computer systems should help too. Busy squares and bike racks should also get cameras.

The CDU wants to revise Berlin's state anti-discrimination law so it goes no further than federal rules. In the party's view, the law puts police officers under general suspicion.

Berlin has its own law against discrimination. The CDU wants to change this law. It should not be stricter than the federal rules. The CDU says the law distrusts police too much.

Through the Bundesrat, the CDU wants higher minimum sentences for attacks on police and emergency workers. Foreign offenders, including EU citizens, are to be expelled and deported faster, and repeat offenders held in pretrial detention sooner.

People who attack police or rescuers should get harsher punishments. Foreign offenders should be deported faster. This also applies to people from the EU. Repeat offenders should go to jail faster.

The CDU wants a dedicated police framework to protect energy, transport and communications networks against sabotage. The program points to the attack on Berlin's power grid as the background.

Power grids, transport and phone networks matter to everyone. The CDU wants to protect them better from attacks. Police should be there more often. Cameras should help.

The CDU wants to equip Berlin's fire service with modern technology, new vehicles and stations, and to complete the joint police and fire control center. Volunteer fire brigades and relief organizations are to find it easier to drive heavy vehicles.

The fire service should get modern technology. This includes drones and firefighting robots. There should be new vehicles and new stations. Volunteers should find it easier to drive big trucks.

The CDU wants to make places where people feel unsafe less threatening through better lighting and clearer paths. The Nora emergency app is to be piloted with the BVG for public transit, and entry checks at outdoor pools are to stay.

Some places make people feel afraid. The CDU wants them brighter and easier to see. An emergency app should be tested on buses and trains. Outdoor pools should keep checking IDs.

The CDU wants electronic ankle monitors used more often for high-risk offenders to enforce no-contact orders. At the federal level, criminal law is to include exploiting physical superiority as an aggravating element.

Dangerous offenders should wear ankle monitors more often. This device shows where the offender is. Victims should get a warning when the offender comes close. Violence against weaker people should be punished more strictly.

The CDU wants to break up drug networks and clan structures and to introduce an anonymous electronic tip system at the police. Modeled on Kottbusser Tor, a police station is to open at Leopoldplatz.

The CDU wants to crack down on drug dealing. People should be able to give police tips anonymously. This would work online. A new police station should open at Leopoldplatz.

The CDU wants to ban street prostitution throughout the city. It cites crime, neglect and burdens on residents in areas such as the Kurfürstenkiez and around Nollendorfplatz.

The CDU wants to ban prostitution on the street in all of Berlin. It says some neighborhoods suffer from crime because of it. Residents are affected. The state should not pay for sex boxes.

The CDU wants to better protect energy, water, IT networks, transport routes and other key facilities from cyberattacks and sabotage. A comprehensive strategy, more surveillance and significantly higher investment are meant to achieve this. Sensitive information about these facilities should no longer become public through transparency rules.

Power, water and internet are very important for the city. The CDU wants to protect them better. The danger is attacks and sabotage. There should be more video cameras. The state should spend more money on this.

The CDU wants to strengthen civil protection and disaster management in Berlin. It is considering a central state agency with a round-the-clock situation center, wants to expand sirens, increase funding for relief organizations and be able to call on all state employees in a crisis.

The CDU wants Berlin to be better prepared for disasters. There may be a new office just for this. There should be more sirens. Aid groups should get more money. In an emergency, all state workers should have to help.

The CDU wants to confiscate illegal profits of criminal clans and organized crime even more consistently. To that end, seizing funds such as those moved through hawala banking should become easier, and prosecutors, police and forensics should get more staff and equipment.

Criminal clans make a lot of illegal money. The CDU wants to take this money away. This should become even easier. Police and prosecutors should get more staff. There should be more checks on businesses.

The CDU wants unauthorized handling of semi-automatic handguns to be punished as a separate felony, citing what it sees as rising gun use in public. Organized trafficking in prescription drugs is also to be punished more harshly, and organized crime offenders are to be excluded from open prisons.

Guns are used more often in Berlin. The CDU wants harsher punishment. Illegally owning a semi-automatic pistol should be a serious crime. Illegal trade in medicine should also be punished harder. Gang members should not go to open prisons.

The CDU wants to give investigators more technical tools against organized crime, including AI analysis and the retention of IP addresses. The domestic intelligence agency would also be brought into the fight against organized crime, and witness protection would be strengthened.

The CDU wants to fight gang crime harder. Police should use more technology. This includes artificial intelligence. IP addresses should be stored. These are numbers that identify devices online. The domestic intelligence service should also help.

The CDU wants to crack down harder on organized welfare fraud, fake residence registrations, and abuse of EU freedom of movement. Automated data matching, more joint operations by several agencies, and a new financial investigations center are planned.

The CDU wants to stop welfare fraud. Agencies should compare data automatically. Expensive cars owned by benefit recipients should be checked. Several offices should inspect together more often. A new center should fight money laundering.

The CDU wants to amend Berlin's law on freedom of assembly and restore "public order" as a criterion. Assemblies could be restricted, banned, or dispersed earlier when there are signs of violence. In the party's view, this protects peaceful protesters.

The CDU wants to change the law on protests. Police should be able to ban or end protests earlier. This applies when violence is likely. Masked or armed people should be stopped early. Videos should be stored longer.

The CDU wants to give Berlin's domestic intelligence agency expanded powers against extremism, including examining access to communications data and public video footage. It cites the left-wing extremist attack on the power grid in January 2026 among its reasons and plans to re-establish a unit on left-wing extremism.

The CDU wants a stronger Verfassungsschutz. This office watches extremists. It should get more rights. It may be allowed to use chat data and videos. A judge should control this. A unit against left-wing extremism should come back.

The CDU wants to make public calls for an Islamist theocracy, Sharia law, or a caliphate in Germany a criminal offense. It also wants to ban the association running the Al-Nur Mosque in Neukölln, which is monitored by domestic intelligence.

The CDU wants a new ban. Calling publicly for an Islamist religious state should be a crime. This also applies to Sharia. That is a religious law. A mosque association in Neukölln should be banned.

The CDU wants to be able to ban antisemitic assemblies such as the Al-Quds march in advance and to expel foreign nationals who commit antisemitic crimes. At universities, antisemitic incidents would be punished up to expulsion, and Jewish life and prevention work would receive lasting funding.

The CDU wants to fight hatred of Jews harder. Protests against Jews or Israel should be banned in advance. Foreigners who commit such crimes should have to leave. At universities, students could be expelled. Support programs should get steady money.

The CDU wants to greatly expand fast-track criminal proceedings and make them the norm for street crime. Hearings should take place the same day or within ten days if possible. The justice system is also to make more use of IT and artificial intelligence.

The CDU wants faster punishment. Street crimes should be handled very quickly. A court should decide on the same day or within ten days. Courts should use more computers and AI.

The CDU wants to modernize Berlin's prisons, add more cells, and better protect prison staff. Judges would be able to work voluntarily until age 68, and the CDU wants to keep the Neutrality Act, which bans religious symbols in the courtroom.

The CDU wants more prison spaces. Prisons should be modernized. Staff there should be better protected. Judges may work until 68 if they want. Religious symbols stay banned in court.

The CDU wants to push at the federal level for children to be criminally responsible from age 12 instead of 14, provided they are mature enough. A court procedure would order educational measures early and bindingly.

The CDU wants a new age limit for punishment. Today it starts at 14. In the future it should start at 12. The child must be mature enough. A court should order educational steps early.

The CDU supports video surveillance on the grounds and in the complexes of state-owned housing companies. In its view, modern technology can help detect and prevent burglary, vandalism and illegal dumping early.

The CDU wants cameras in state-owned housing. The cameras should stop break-ins. They should also help against damage and illegal trash. Housing complexes should also be easier to find your way in.

The CDU wants to give Berlin's public order offices (Ordnungsämter) more staff, better equipment and additional powers. Over time they should operate around the clock where possible, taking pressure off the police.

The public order offices should get more staff. They should get better equipment too. For example, body cameras. They should be allowed to do more than today. This should help the police.

The CDU wants to consistently pursue illegal graffiti and have antisemitic, racist or extremist graffiti removed within 24 hours at the latest. At the same time, legal spaces for street art are to be promoted.

Illegal graffiti should be pursued. Hate graffiti should be removed fast. At the latest after 24 hours. There should also be legal spaces for street art. Paths should get better lighting too.

To better solve anti-queer crimes, the CDU wants comprehensive video surveillance at crime hotspots and on public transit, with footage stored for at least 96 hours. It also wants more visible police, better lighting and emergency call points.

Crimes against queer people should be solved more often. The CDU wants more cameras for this. They should be at dangerous places. Also on buses and trains. Videos should be kept at least four days. There should be more police on the streets.

The CDU wants to fight Islamism, which it classifies as an extremist political ideology, with the full force of the rule of law. It wants to abolish Berlin's day of action and remembrance against anti-Muslim hostility.

Islamism is an extreme political idea. The CDU wants to act hard against it. Berlin has a day against hostility toward Muslims. The CDU wants to end this day.

The Greens want stadiums to remain safe, inclusive places and rely on prevention to get there. Clubs and associations are to help pay for this work, and games are to be classified as high-risk according to clear criteria.

There should be no violence in stadiums. So the Greens want more work with fans. The soccer associations should help pay for it. Some games count as very risky. There should be clear rules for that.

The Greens want the BVG and the S-Bahn to no longer be required to file criminal complaints for riding without a ticket, as long as the federal government has not decriminalized it. The fine would remain. The platform expects this to ease the burden on the courts and to be fairer socially.

Some people ride without a ticket. Today this can be a crime. The Greens want this: the BVG and the S-Bahn no longer have to report it to the police. People still pay a fine. This should take work off the courts and save prison costs.

The Greens want to introduce uniform police procedures for cases of gender-based and domestic violence, modeled on Spain. They also support electronic ankle monitors and want mandatory training for all contact points that deal with victims.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. The police should follow fixed rules in such cases. Spain is the model for this. Offenders could have to wear an electronic ankle monitor. This is a device on the leg that reports the location. Hospital staff should also get training.

The Greens want to expand efforts to prevent right-wing extremism, especially among children and young people and online. The platform argues that far-right groups are increasingly recruiting young people.

The Greens want to do more against right-wing extremism. They want to start early, mostly with young people. Schools should get help with this. There should also be more offers online.

The Greens want stronger protection and counseling for people affected by far-right violence. Their cases are to be recorded as politically motivated crimes and solved quickly. The platform points to a sharp rise in such offenses.

Some people are threatened or attacked by right-wing extremists. The Greens want to protect these people better. There should be more counseling for them. The police should solve their cases quickly.

The Greens want far-right crimes punished faster and more consistently, including minor offenses. Right-wing extremists, Reichsbürger (people who reject the German state) and followers of conspiracy ideologies are to lose their weapons. The public sector is also to be protected from right-wing extremists.

The Greens want to prosecute far-right crimes strictly. This also applies to small offenses. Right-wing extremists should no longer have weapons. Enemies of the constitution should not work for the state.

The Greens want criminal cases against users to be dropped as a rule when the amount is within clearly defined limits for personal use. They also back pilot projects in which drugs are dispensed under controlled conditions. Police and courts are to focus their resources on organized crime instead.

People with a small amount of drugs for themselves should usually not be punished. The amount should be clearly set. The Greens also want to test projects that hand out drugs in a controlled way. Police should focus more on large criminal gangs.

The Greens want to permanently secure youth social work and youth cultural programs in disadvantaged neighborhoods, especially those aimed at young men. The platform treats prevention as the most effective way to fight crime and names poverty, lack of prospects and lack of participation as its main causes.

The Greens want to keep programs for young people running. This matters most in poor neighborhoods. Young men in particular should find help there. The party says prevention is the best protection against crime.

The Greens want to spread community policing throughout Berlin. More local contact officers and visible presence are meant to raise trust in the police and people's sense of safety. Case conferences are planned for people in mental health crises.

The police should be closer to people. There should be more regular contact officers in each neighborhood. More officers should patrol by bike. People with mental illness should get special help.

The Greens want to prioritize renovating police and fire service buildings and vehicles and to guarantee basic equipment for emergency personnel. Police training is also to become more attractive and working conditions better, so the services have enough staff despite demographic change.

The Greens want to renew police and fire service buildings and vehicles. Emergency workers should have good protective gear and enough supplies. Work should fit better with family life. Workers who are attacked on duty should get more help.

The Greens want to make security agencies more diverse and counter discrimination, racism and sexism within them. Cases of police violence are to be investigated and addressed. Antifeminism is to become a distinct category in the work of the security agencies.

The Greens want more diversity in the police and fire service. The agencies should deal openly with mistakes. They should act against racism and sexism. Staff should learn more about democracy.

The Greens want to expand independent oversight of the police. The Bürger- und Polizeibeauftragter (citizens' and police commissioner) is to be able to effectively review every case brought to him. The platform regards the creation of this office as the right step toward greater trust in government action.

Berlin has a commissioner for citizens and the police. He looks into complaints about the police. Police officers can also turn to him. The Greens want him to be able to check every case properly.

The Greens want to introduce a regular Berlin security report that examines the causes of crime as well as the number of offenses. On that basis, the police are to deploy their resources where they have the greatest effect. The district Ordnungsämter (public order offices) are to be strengthened to relieve the police.

The Greens want a new report on safety in Berlin. The report should also show the causes of crime. The police should then work where it helps most. The public order offices should handle more tasks themselves.

The Greens reject surveillance without specific cause, including biometric facial recognition, blanket data retention and citywide video surveillance. The platform also rejects analysis software from Palantir and a large police database. Instead, targeted investigative tools and the police's IT forensics are to be strengthened.

The Greens oppose surveillance without a reason. They do not want automatic face recognition. Cameras should only be used in a few important places. The police should not use software from the company Palantir. Instead, the police should get better tech experts.

The Greens want to evaluate Berlin's police law, the ASOG, and in doing so strengthen civil rights and parliamentary oversight. They reject police stops without cause because, in the platform's view, they achieve little and encourage racial profiling. A digital stop receipt is to record the reason for each check.

The Greens want to review Berlin's police law. The police should not stop people without a reason. Anyone who is stopped should get a digital receipt. It states the reason for the stop. The party wants to review weapon-ban zones and remove some.

The Greens reject stricter rules in Berlin's Versammlungsfreiheitsgesetz (freedom of assembly law). They argue that violence and hate at demonstrations are already not covered by the fundamental right. According to the platform, the police should rely on de-escalation at assemblies.

The Greens do not want to make the law on demonstrations stricter. Violence and hate are already banned there today. The police should act calmly at demonstrations. Police mistakes should be investigated.

The Greens want an overall strategy against right-wing extremism and more deradicalization and counseling work. Outstanding arrest warrants against extremists are to be enforced, and anti-constitutional associations banned where the law allows. Investigations into attacks on the power grid are to be stepped up.

The Greens want to do more against right-wing extremism. Police should arrest wanted extremists. Dangerous groups should be banned when the law allows it. There should be more counseling to help people leave extremist circles. Attacks on the power grid should be solved.

The Greens want right-wing crimes to be examined for political motives from the very start. Agencies are to cooperate better, with clear responsibilities and organized knowledge transfer. The background is the series of right-wing attacks in Neukölln, which the program says was not pursued consistently.

For years there were right-wing attacks in Neukölln. The Greens say the authorities did not investigate well enough. That should not happen again. Agencies should work together better. Even with small crimes, they should check for a political motive.

The Greens want to split the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) into two pillars: an independent institute working from public sources and an intelligence service clearly separated from police work. An oversight law is to strengthen parliament's rights. The party rejects routine intelligence checks on applicants for public service jobs.

The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence service. The Greens want to rebuild it. An independent institute should study public information. The intelligence service should focus on serious threats. Parliament should have more control over it. People applying for government jobs should not be checked automatically.

The Greens call for a citywide strategy linking security and social policy. It combines social measures, better quality of public spaces and police presence. The program argues that social problems can only be solved by social means.

The Greens want a plan for places with many problems. There should be more social help there. Public squares should be cleaner and nicer. Police should be easy to approach. The Greens say police alone cannot solve social problems.

The Greens want to prioritize the fight against organized crime and pool resources. Investigators are to follow the money and confiscate illegally acquired assets, including real estate. A real estate register is to reveal the actual beneficial owners.

The Greens want to do more against criminal gangs. Investigators should follow the gangs' money. The state should take away illegal money and buildings. A register should show who really owns a building. Police should not treat anyone unfairly because of their origin.

The Greens want to create a bike theft investigation unit at the state criminal police office with responsibility for all of Berlin. Places with many thefts are to see far more targeted operations. The program points to about 25,000 reported cases a year and a clearance rate below five percent.

About 25,000 bikes are stolen in Berlin every year. Police solve very few cases. The Greens want a special police unit against bike theft. It should work for the whole city. Places with many thefts should get more police operations.

The Greens want to better equip security agencies to fight cybercrime, digital espionage and online hate crime. They also plan a strategy against disinformation, a cybersecurity strategy for the Berlin government and a Berlin IT security law. Digital crime is not to be treated as secondary.

Crime also happens online. The Greens want police and courts to fight it better. There should be a plan against false news. A new law should set firm rules for safe computer systems in Berlin. Big internet companies should face stricter control.

The Greens want to revise the disaster protection law, coordinate crisis teams centrally and systematically secure critical infrastructure. A digital platform is to bring in volunteer helpers. The program cites two attacks on the power grid and what it sees as unclear responsibilities.

Berlin should be better prepared for crises. These include power outages, heat, heavy rain and cyberattacks. The Greens want to update the disaster protection law. It should be clear who is in charge in a crisis. A website should bring volunteer helpers together.

The Greens want to push at the federal level so that no one is jailed for being unable to pay a fine. Petty offenses such as riding public transit without a ticket would no longer be crimes. The platform argues that prosecuting such acts burdens the justice system and that poverty must not lead to prison.

Some people cannot pay their fine. Today they have to go to prison instead. The Greens want to end this. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime. The Greens say that poor people need help, not prison.

The Greens want to put the reintegration of prisoners back at the center of the prison system and expand open prisons. In the platform's view, only rehabilitation protects society from crime in the long run. Loss of liberty is said to be punishment enough, and prison conditions should be up to date.

Prisoners should be able to live without crime after prison. So the Greens want more open prisons. In an open prison, prisoners have more freedom. Prisoners should also get more education and support. The Greens say this protects society best.

The Left wants to end restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. In the program's view, these rights have been curtailed in recent years by bans on demonstrations, police conduct, and political influence on art and culture.

The Left wants to protect free speech. The right to demonstrate should also be protected. The Left says these rights were limited in recent years. That should stop. No one should be afraid to say what they think.

The Left wants to create a competence center against financial and white-collar crime in which prosecutors, police, customs and tax investigators work together. The program justifies this with the high annual losses the state suffers from money laundering, undeclared work and schemes such as cum-ex.

Berlin loses a lot of money to money laundering, undeclared work and tax fraud. The Left wants to set up a new center against this. Prosecutors, police, customs and tax investigators work together there. They sit in one building and use the same technology.

The Left wants to set up technical competence centers that help counseling services, women's shelters and private individuals in cases of digital violence. Police and the justice system are to receive mandatory training. The party calls for strict laws against sexualized deepfakes made without consent.

Digital violence is violence through phones and the internet. The Left wants to build centers with tech experts. They help counseling services and women's shelters. Police and courts should have to take training. Fake sexual images of people should be strictly banned.

The Left wants to end what it sees as the costly build-up of the police and redirect money to social work, crisis services and prevention. It wants to examine bringing police staffing in line with that of other city-states. According to the platform, safety comes mainly from tackling social causes.

The Left wants to spend less money on the police. The money should go to social work and crisis help. The party says poverty and hardship lead to crime. So help should start there. The fence around Görlitzer Park should go.

The Left wants to strengthen the state program against radicalization, arguing that hate violence in Berlin is rising. The focus is to be on far-right and neo-Nazi structures. Those affected are to get more support and easier access to financial help.

There is more hate violence in Berlin. The Left wants to do more against it. It wants to look mainly at far-right groups and neo-Nazis. Victims should get money and help more quickly.

The Left wants to give the Police and Citizens' Commissioner more staff and investigative powers of his own. Members of the public are to be allowed to film police operations and to demand that a bodycam be switched on. This is meant to increase democratic oversight of the police.

The Left wants more checks on the police. The police ombudsman should get more rights and more staff. Everyone should be allowed to film police operations. People should also be able to demand that officers turn on their body camera.

The Left wants to scrap the designation of certain areas as "crime-burdened places" as well as weapons-ban zones. In the party's view, the special police powers that apply there enable discriminatory checks. Police are to issue a written receipt for every check in the future.

In some places in Berlin, police can check people without a reason. The Left wants to end these special rules. It says police there often check people because of how they look. Police should hand out a note stating the reason for every check.

The Left wants to curb the surveillance powers of the police and the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence service) and will not support new ones. It rejects state spyware, biometric matching against publicly available data and AI analysis software such as Palantir's. Data protection oversight of police data is to be strengthened.

The Left wants less surveillance by police and the domestic intelligence service. Police should not use spy software on phones and computers. They should not match faces with pictures from the internet either. People should find out more easily what data the police hold on them.

The Left wants to allow tasers only for special police units. Instead, multi-professional teams outside the police are to help people in acute mental health crises. The central detention facility is to be modernized.

Tasers are devices that give electric shocks. The Left wants only special police units to use them. People in a mental health crisis should get help from separate teams. These teams are not part of the police.

The Left rejects the latest reform of Berlin's police law (ASOG) because it permits biometric and AI-assisted surveillance. It wants to fight the reform by legal and political means and revise the entire law. It also opposes large-scale business inspections targeting migrant-run shops.

Berlin changed its police law. The police can now watch people more, also with computer programs. The Left is against this. It wants to rewrite the law. Human dignity should come first.

The Left wants to improve working conditions for emergency personnel so that the state of Berlin is an attractive employer. Overtime is to be clearly limited, psychological support guaranteed, and buildings renovated faster.

Police and firefighters should get better working conditions. There should be less overtime. Staff should get help for their mental health. Buildings should be repaired faster.

The Left wants higher-grade police officers to continue being trained at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). It rejects plans to move this training entirely to a police academy supervised by the interior administration.

Many police officers in Berlin study at a university. The Left wants to keep it that way. Some want to move the training to a police academy. The Left is against this.

The Left wants to protect freedom of assembly more strongly against state restrictions and improve Berlin's Freedom of Assembly Act. The ban on face coverings and so-called protective gear at demonstrations is to be dropped entirely, and the assembly authority would no longer be part of the police.

People are allowed to protest. The Left wants to protect this right better. People should be allowed to cover their faces at protests. The police should no longer decide about protests. Another office should do that.

The Left wants to abolish Berlin's Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) as a secret service. It would be replaced by a research-based information and documentation center that uses only public sources. In the party's view, the agency harms the rule of law more than it helps.

The Verfassungsschutz is a secret service. It watches enemies of democracy. The Left wants to close it in Berlin. A new office should replace it. That office should work openly and do research, without secret methods.

The Left wants to equip the professional fire department so that it can meet required response times and staffing levels. To that end, more people are to be trained and hired, and stations and vehicles renewed.

The fire department should reach people fast enough. It needs more staff for that. The Left wants to train and hire more people. More women should join too. Stations and vehicles should be repaired.

The Left wants to draw lessons from attacks on the power supply, which in its view exposed weaknesses in civil protection. It calls for investment in resilient grids, clear crisis plans, emergency shelter, and an emergency fund for those affected. Help should also reach people who cannot look after themselves.

In a big power outage, many people need help. The Left wants Berlin to be better prepared. There should be emergency shelters. People affected should get money for their costs. Helpers should visit people at home.

The Left wants Berlin's authorities to be better staffed and organized for disasters. It plans a rollout plan for emergency contact points in the districts and neighborhoods, a review of vulnerable spots in the power grid, and up-to-date emergency plans for the administration.

The Left wants Berlin to be better prepared for disasters. The authorities should get enough staff for this. The districts should have places where people can get help in an emergency. The power grid should be better protected. Schools and daycare centers should get emergency plans too.

The Left wants to give the white-collar crime units of Berlin's public prosecutor's office more staff and a better organization. The platform sees white-collar crime, corruption, and abuse of office as a major danger to the state and to trust in it.

The Left wants to do more against white-collar crime. That includes tax fraud and corruption. Corruption means that someone takes bribes. The prosecutor's office should get more experts for this.

The Left wants prison sentences to be imposed and served only in exceptional cases and wants to put open prisons back at the center. The party considers jail time in place of unpaid fines (Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe) unjust because, in its view, it only hits poor people, and wants to curb it.

The Left wants fewer people to go to prison. Some people go to jail because they cannot pay a fine. The Left thinks this is unfair and wants it to happen less often. Prisoners should be better prepared for life after release.

The Left wants to strengthen prison staff through supervision, further training, and better pay. Anonymous, independent reporting offices are to be set up or expanded to counter corruption, abuse of power, and improper treatment. The platform regards motivated staff as a precondition for successful rehabilitation.

The Left wants to help people who work in prisons. They should get counseling and training. They should also earn more money. There should be reporting offices. People can report problems there without giving their name.

The Left wants prisoners to receive the minimum wage in jobs covered by social insurance for their work inside prison, so that they are not released in debt. Programs in custody should be geared to inmates' needs, and people released should not end up homeless. The party wants to reverse restrictions imposed by the CDU-SPD Senate on inmate representation, prison newspapers, and cultural activities.

Prisoners work in prison. The Left wants to pay them the minimum wage for it. That way they leave prison without debt. Nobody should have to live on the street after prison. Newspapers and theater in prison should get more room again.

The Left wants to remove offenses typically linked to poverty from criminal law, above all riding without a ticket, and to do so without any replacement penalty. Fines should be dischargeable through community service, and legal aid should be available in criminal proceedings. The party argues that criminal law and criminal procedure hit people with little money especially hard.

The Left wants to stop punishing people for riding without a ticket. This should also apply to other offenses caused by poverty. People who cannot pay a fine should be able to do community work. Poor people should get money for a lawyer. The Left says criminal law hits poor people harder than rich people.

The Left rejects blanket measures and collective punishment against soccer fans and wants fewer police deployed at matches. Fan projects are to get more funding, and their staff a right to refuse to testify. The party wants to keep standing sections, affordable tickets and the 50+1 rule.

The Left wants to protect soccer fans better. There should be no punishment for whole groups of fans. There should be fewer police at matches. Fan projects should get more money. Standing areas and cheap tickets should stay.

The Left calls for a ban on all militant neo-Nazi organizations and for disarming right-wing structures. Prosecutors and investigators are to shift their priorities more toward pursuing these groups.

The Left wants to ban militant neo-Nazi groups. Right-wing groups should have to give up their weapons. Prosecutors and investigators should focus more on these groups.

The SPD wants to create a state security council that coordinates security strategies across departments. A comprehensive strategy is to protect critical infrastructure and keep Berlin able to act in crises. Investment in disaster and civil protection is also planned.

The SPD wants a new body for security in Berlin. It is called the state security council. All responsible offices work together there. Berlin should protect power, water and heating better. The city should be able to spot dangers early.

The SPD wants to improve Berlin's disaster response and create a single crisis management system for the whole state. A law would define who is in charge during a crisis. Civil defense and protection against cyberattacks would also be strengthened.

The SPD wants Berlin to be better prepared for crises. All agencies should work with the same system. A law should say who decides in a crisis. Berlin should also be better protected against attacks from the internet.

The SPD wants to strengthen police and prosecutors in tackling white-collar and organized crime. Assets gained through crime would be confiscated. Hate crime and violence against women would also be pursued more vigorously.

The SPD wants to do more against crime. Police and prosecutors should act more strongly against money laundering and corruption. The state should take away money made from crime. The SPD also wants to fight gangs and hate crimes more.

The SPD wants state interventions to remain proportionate. Checks without specific suspicion would be restricted, and weapon and knife ban zones should stay the exception. The party rejects software from vendors such as Palantir for Berlin.

The SPD wants to protect people's civil liberties. Police should check people without suspicion less often. Zones that ban knives and weapons should stay rare. Berlin should not use software from the company Palantir.

The SPD wants to renovate police and fire stations through a dedicated investment program and update equipment. Police would work more closely with neighborhoods and civil society and be more visible on patrol.

The SPD wants to repair police and fire service buildings. There should be a special funding program for this. Police should patrol more often on foot and by bike. They should work more closely with people in the neighborhood.

The SPD wants a violence prevention law that makes prevention binding and funds it permanently. Programs for nonviolent conflict resolution in neighborhoods would be supported.

The SPD wants to stop violence before it happens. There should be a special law for this. The law should secure the money for this work for the long term. Projects in neighborhoods should get support.

The SPD wants to gradually replace jail terms for unpaid fines with community work, arguing that such detention often hits poorer people. At the federal level it is pushing for riding without a ticket to no longer be a crime. Prisons should combine security with rehabilitation.

People who do not pay a fine often have to go to jail today. The SPD wants to change that. These people should do community work instead. Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime.