New old aliens\u2019 police \u2013 an introduction<\/strong> The foreigner and asylum law was always also security law. But fuelled by absurd threat scenarios the law has been massively tightened by the German coalition government since autumn 2015.<\/p>\n Police failure on the New Year\u2019s Eve in Cologne<\/strong> 900 sexual offences have been committed at the turn of the year 2015\/16 in public areas in German cities according to the Federal Criminal Police Office. More than one half of these acts happened at the Cologne central railway station. The assaults in Cologne became synonymous with the obvious failure of the police as well as with the projection surface of any type.<\/p>\n Expulsion – reloaded<\/strong> Only a short time after it had become public that plenty of sexual offences were committed mainly by refugees in the New Year\u2019s Eve 2015\/16 at the Cologne central railway station, German politicians started calling for the tightening of the law on expulsion. The first legal amendment was adopted by the German Bundestag on 11 March 2016, a second amendment followed on 7 July.<\/p>\n The police and the reception of refugees<\/strong> In face of the high numbers of arriving refugees and the chaotic situation in supply and accommodation both the Federal Police and the state police forces have taken over actual tasks of the asylum and welfare authorities. Therefore, the reception of refugees is also shaped by the logic of policing.<\/p>\n Refugees as bulk data<\/strong> In face of the steep increase of arrivals of asylum seekers law-and-order politicians complained that a regular registration procedure ceased to exist and public security is at risk. The new Data Exchange Improvement Act aims both to optimise the administration of refugees and to secure the control of police and intelligence services.<\/p>\n The Bavarian centers for arrival and return<\/strong> The promise of the centres for arrival and return (ARE) in Manching and Bamberg is to accelerate the asylum procedure. Following the Swiss model, the presence of all responsible authorities on the spot is said to warrant a seamless cooperation of different stakeholders. However, these special camps are not characterised by speedy procedures. Rather they stand for the pressure to return, resulting from isolation, shabbiness and the lack of support.<\/p>\n Enforcement phantasies \u2013 deportations in Germany<\/strong> The calls for more speedy deportations are very loud at the moment. A look at the current figures unveils that the diagnosis of an \u201cenforcement gap\u201d is untenable. In fact, the deportations from Germany are increasing continuously since 2013 and have reached a peak level meanwhile.<\/p>\n Private security services in refugee shelters<\/strong> The conditions in refugee shelters operated by private companies and controlled by private security guards are bad. The abuse case of asylum seekers in the refugee shelter in Burbach made clear that the uncontrolled use of security staff is a massive problem.<\/p>\n Snitches against unwanted migration<\/strong> The Federal Police is using secret informers for quite some time. Now they can also deploy covert investigators. The provision to do so is part of the new Act for an Improved Information Exchange to Combat International Terrorism which was adopted by the German Bundestag on 24 June 2016 with majority vote of the Grand Coalition.<\/p>\n Europe in the second year of the \u201crefugee crisis\u201d<\/strong> The crisis of EU migration management is not over despite the closure of the Balkan route and the deal with Turkey. Thousands of migrants are stranded in Greece under awkward conditions, and also the way out of Italy is barred. Nonetheless the EU wilfully adheres to the Dublin system and attempts to upgrade Frontex to seal the external borders.<\/p>\n The Federal Constitutional Court\u2019s decision on the Federal Criminal Police Office Act<\/strong> On 20 April 2016, the Federal Constitutional Court decided that most of the counterterrorism powers of the Federal Criminal Police Office that had been adopted in late 2008 are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n Deadly police shots in 2015<\/strong> For 2015, the statistics of the German Police University count 41 cases of police shootings at persons and 17 shootings at objects. Ten persons have been killed, 22 wounded.<\/p>\n Berlin-Friedrichshain: Averting dangers in campaigning times<\/strong> When large numbers of police stormed the building at the Rigaer Street 94 in Berlin-Friedrichshain and occupied the stairs and the attic in the morning of 22 June 2016 the inhabitants were not really surprised. 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\nby Heiner Busch<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Norbert P\u00fctter<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Anja Lederer<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Christian Schr\u00f6der<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Dirk Burczyk<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Stephan D\u00fcnnwald<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Maximilian Pichl<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Katharina M\u00fcller and Christian Schr\u00f6der<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Matthias Monroy<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Heiner Busch<\/strong><\/p>\nNon-thematic contributions<\/h4>\n
\nby Fredrik Roggan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Otto Diederichs<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nby Louisa Zech and Tom Jennissen<\/strong><\/p>\n