What do the parties in Hamburg say 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 CDU wants to add staff to the police, public prosecutors, courts and prisons. It plans to train more recruits and improve working conditions so that Hamburg can compete for new talent.

The CDU wants more staff for the police and the courts. Hamburg should train more people for these jobs. The staff should get better pay. The CDU hopes this will attract good new workers.

The CDU wants to modernize the technology of Hamburg's police. Uniformed officers are to receive tasers, bodycams and smartphones, among other things, and patrol cars are to be digitally connected.

The CDU wants to give the police new technology. This includes tasers. These are devices that use electric shocks from a distance. It also includes body cameras and smartphones. Patrol cars should get digital technology too.

The CDU wants to strengthen the forensic science and technology division of the State Criminal Police Office (LKA). It plans more staff and resources, a new building with laboratories, and greater use of specialized software and artificial intelligence.

Forensic experts examine traces left by crimes. Examples are fingerprints, blood or weapons. The CDU wants a new building with labs for this work. It also wants more staff and more computer programs.

The CDU wants more uniformed police and community officers on Hamburg's streets, including outside the city center. To relieve officers, more civilian police employees are to be trained and additional mobile police stations set up.

The CDU wants more police on the streets. This should apply to the whole city. Civilian employees should take over simple tasks from police officers. There should also be more mobile police stations.

The CDU wants to adapt the legal powers of the security authorities to the digital world. This includes more undercover investigations online, source telecommunications surveillance, remote searches of devices, data retention and the removal of data protection obstacles.

The CDU wants to give the police and the domestic intelligence service more powers. They should be able to investigate better on the internet. They should be allowed to secretly search suspects' computers and phones. Connection data should be stored in advance. Data protection rules should stand in the way less often.

The CDU wants to raise the maximum length of preventive detention in Hamburg from ten to 30 days. This is aimed mainly at people planning terrorist or extremist attacks.

The police may hold people as a precaution if they plan a serious crime. This is called preventive detention. Today it can last ten days at most. The CDU wants to allow 30 days. This is meant to protect against attacks.

The CDU wants to introduce weapon-free zones and video surveillance at more high-crime locations, such as Steindamm and the Phoenix-Viertel neighborhood. Cameras with software that detects behavior patterns are to be used more widely. Certain groups of offenders are to be banned from owning weapons.

The CDU wants to ban weapons in more places. There should also be cameras there. Some cameras should spot dangerous behavior on their own. A person then checks the video. Certain offenders should no longer be allowed to own weapons.

The CDU wants a zero-tolerance strategy against clans and organized crime. It plans a situation report on clan crime, more staff, joint operations by several agencies and faster confiscation of assets.

The CDU wants tougher action against criminal clans and gangs. The city should record exactly what clans own. Police, customs and local offices should carry out more joint checks. The state should take money and expensive cars from offenders more quickly.

The CDU is pushing for children to be criminally responsible from age 12 for serious crimes. It also wants Hamburg to have its own places in secure educational facilities, more prevention lessons and a review of the Juvenile Courts Act.

Today children can only be punished from age 14. The CDU wants this from age 12 for serious crimes. This means crimes such as murder or manslaughter. Hamburg should have its own secure homes for children who commit many offenses. Schools should teach more about violence and crime.

The CDU wants to strengthen the police and public prosecutors with staff and technology to fight crimes committed online. It plans further training, dedicated career tracks for IT investigators and digital crime reporting.

More and more crimes happen on the internet. The CDU wants more experts for this in the police and the prosecutor's office. There should be special career paths for computer investigators. People should be able to report such crimes easily online.

The CDU wants to work closely with people with a migration background to take action against criminals, extremists and enemies of the constitution. They are to be punished and, where possible, expelled.

The CDU wants to work together with immigrants. Together they should act against criminals and extremists. These offenders should be punished. Where possible, they should have to leave Germany.

The CDU wants to rebuild the district public order service that was dissolved in 2014. It is to penalize minor offenses, act against neglect in public spaces and relieve the police. Better street lighting and quick removal of graffiti are also planned.

The districts used to have a public order service. The CDU wants to bring it back. It should watch over rules in streets and parks. That gives the police more time for other tasks. Dark paths should get better lighting.

The CDU wants to shorten the time between a crime and the verdict. To do so, prosecutors and courts are to get more staff, and the accelerated procedure under the Code of Criminal Procedure is to be used more often.

A lot of time often passes between a crime and the verdict. The CDU wants to change that. Courts and prosecutors should get more staff. Suitable cases should go through a fast procedure.

The CDU wants to expand victim protection. The victim protection commissioner is to be responsible for all victims of crime and violence, and a fund is to pay damages and compensation for pain and suffering when offenders cannot pay.

The CDU wants to give more help to victims of crime. One central office should advise all victims. A fund should pay victims when the offender has no money. The fund later gets the money back from the offender.

The CDU wants to create additional places in the Maßregelvollzug (forensic psychiatric detention), which houses offenders with mental illness or addiction. In addition, prison places are to be reactivated in the regular prison system and more trainees recruited.

Some offenders are mentally ill or addicted. They go to a special secure facility. The CDU wants to create more places there. Prisons should also get more places and more staff.

The CDU wants to give state and federal security agencies additional powers against Islamism and step up online intelligence work. It argues that attack plots are often uncovered only through tips from foreign intelligence services and that young lone offenders radicalize online.

The CDU wants to do more against Islamism. Police and the domestic intelligence service should get more powers. The intelligence service should watch the internet more closely. Young people should get counseling online.

The CDU wants to expand prevention and exit programs against left-wing extremism and teach about it in schools. It also calls for a joint database covering the left-wing extremist scene. It sees Hamburg as a stronghold of that scene and points to the riots at the 2017 G20 summit.

The CDU wants to do more against left-wing extremism. Schools should teach about the dangers. There should be more help for people who want to leave the scene. The authorities should collect data on the scene in one database.

The CDU wants to better equip security agencies to fight antisemitism and to upgrade the office of the antisemitism commissioner. Other forms of hate crime are also to be recorded in statistics and prosecuted. Jewish life in Hamburg should be visible and safe.

The CDU wants to protect Jews in Hamburg better. The police should get more resources for this. The commissioner against hatred of Jews should get a stronger role. Hate against women, gay people and trans people should also be punished.

The CDU wants to expand civil defense and disaster response in Hamburg with a dedicated push and an operations plan. It points to the changed threat situation since Russia's attack on Ukraine, to cyberattacks and to more frequent extreme weather.

The CDU wants to prepare Hamburg better for emergencies. This means war, attacks on computers and severe storms. There should be a fixed plan for such cases. Volunteers should be trained, and there should be more drills.

The CDU says it will not tolerate political Islamism and wants to stop extremist religious activities. Hate preachers are to be expelled when the legal requirements are met.

The CDU wants to fight religious extremism. Extremists want to force their views on others. Hate preachers should have to leave Germany. This should apply when the law allows it.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

The Left wants to strictly limit the police's tasks to averting danger and prosecuting crime, and it rejects equipping them with more technology and video surveillance. Wearing face coverings at protests and spontaneous assemblies should no longer be criminal offenses.

The Left wants less power for the police. The police should only prevent danger and pursue crimes. The Left is against cameras in public squares and against Tasers. Covering your face at a protest should no longer be a crime.

The Left wants to abolish the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence agency) and replace it with an academic institute researching democracy and group-focused hostility. It argues that the agency does not take the threat from the right seriously.

The Verfassungsschutz is a domestic intelligence agency. The Left wants to abolish it. A research institute should take its place. It should study democracy and hatred against groups of people. The Left says the agency does too little against the far right.

In crime policy, the Left relies on social policy, prevention and reintegration and rejects tougher penalties. Rehabilitation should be at the center of the prison system, and prisoners' rights should be upheld.

The Left does not want tougher sentences. It wants to prevent crime through good social policy. Prisoners should be prepared for life after prison. They should get help with housing and work. Their rights should also apply in prison.

The Left wants to restrict police data collection to the bare minimum. Security agencies would be barred from using biometric facial recognition, behavior-pattern analysis, and predictive software based on mass data.

The police should collect less data. They should not be allowed to recognize faces by computer. They should not use programs that predict crimes. People whose data is stored should get more rights.

The Left wants to set up an independent police complaints office with its own investigative powers and strengthen parliamentary oversight. It rejects new police powers and wants to end the use of paid informants (V-Leute) by the domestic intelligence service.

The Left wants an independent office for complaints about the police. This office should be able to investigate on its own. The police should not get new powers. The intelligence service should stop using informants. Informants are insiders who spy on a group.

The Left wants to step up prevention of Islamism, especially in schools and other educational institutions and in affected neighborhoods. In addition, bans on associations and their activities are to be examined.

The Left wants to do more against Islamism. Schools and youth centers should get money and support for this. Affected neighborhoods should get more information. The city should also check whether to ban certain groups.

The Left wants to stop prosecuting minor offenses such as fare evasion or dumpster diving and to abolish jail time in place of unpaid fines (Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe). In the platform's view, such acts are often committed out of poverty, which should not be punished further. Cannabis would be fully legalized.

Riding without a ticket should no longer be a crime. The same goes for small thefts and dumpster diving. Dumpster diving means taking food from store trash bins. People who cannot pay a fine should not go to jail. Cannabis should be fully legal.

The SPD wants to consistently enforce shared rules in the city and fight organized crime. It plans to invest in the police and fire service and to strengthen the public prosecutor's office.

The SPD wants Hamburg to stay safe. It wants to spend more on police and firefighters. The prosecutor's office should get stronger too. The SPD wants to fight organized crime.

The SPD wants to add 500 more police positions over the next five years. This comes with a higher police allowance, investment in IT and buildings, and a new police academy.

The SPD wants to hire more police officers. Over five years, 500 positions should be added. Officers should get a higher allowance. The police should get modern technology and a new academy.

The SPD relies on video surveillance, more weapon-free zones and stepped-up checks, especially at events. People are to feel safe at all times in public spaces and on public transit.

The SPD wants more cameras in public places. Weapons should be banned in more areas. Police should check more there. A new app should make emergency calls faster.

The SPD wants to increase investigative pressure on organized crime and invest in security technology in the port. Money laundering is to be fought harder, criminal assets seized, and clan structures prevented from forming.

Illegal drugs reach Hamburg through the port. The SPD wants to investigate the gangs behind this more. The port should get more security technology. The state should seize money from crime.

The SPD wants to add 300 more firefighters, raise their allowance and build new stations. Disaster protection is to improve through a new department and a crisis-proof communications network.

The SPD wants to hire 300 more firefighters. The fire service should get new stations. Firefighters should get a higher allowance. Protection in disasters should also get better.

The SPD wants to act against right-wing extremism, Islamism and other extremist movements and relies on prevention and deradicalization. The state domestic intelligence office (Verfassungsschutz) is to get more staff and technology, also against espionage, sabotage and cyberattacks.

The SPD wants to protect democracy from extremists. These include right-wing extremists and Islamists. The domestic intelligence office should get more staff. It should also fend off attacks on the internet. Children and young people should be better protected.

The SPD wants the prison system to focus more on rehabilitation and to avoid jail terms for unpaid fines through prevention and community service. Secure psychiatric facilities for mentally ill offenders are to be expanded.

The SPD wants offenders not to commit new crimes after prison. People who cannot pay a fine should do community work rather than go to jail. Social workers should help early. There should be more places for mentally ill offenders.