Securitized cities Cities are considered to be spaces of insecurity and crime. Policing and other measures of security are traditionally legitimized by the fear of \u201cdangerous classes\u201c and \u201cforeigners\u201c. Such \u201csecurizations\u201c are always a reaction to social processes. Currently this is particularly the case with processes of gentrification (i.e. the realization of capital through urbanization), migration questions and urban protests.<\/p>\n Precarization of migrant (sex)work in cities In the context of gentrification, cities have enlarged the off-limits areas for prostitution. Migrant sex workers have become subject of police controls. With the eastern enlargement of the EU, city administrations try additionally to restrain migration by excluding migrants from the health and welfare system.<\/p>\n Who\u2019s afraid of the Kottbusser Tor? The Kottbusser Tor is a big crossroad and a metro station in Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Many of the several thousand local residents are migrants and many live in poor circumstances. In the course of gentrification, there has been a steady rise of rents in the last years. Since 1996, the Kottbusser Tor is considered as a \u201ccrime-prone place\u201d, where the police is authorized to stop and search people without any specific cause or suspicion.<\/p>\n Policing for profit: Governing through annoyance \u201cPolicing the city\u201d is also a question of policing for profit. In which state and position is the security-business today? What is its place in the \u201csecurity architecture\u201d? What are its tasks and who gives the orders in the (semi-)public space of small towns?<\/p>\n Contested public space: Recent legal developments Begging, loitering, sleeping and alcohol consumption in public spaces have been issues of debate and jurisdiction since the nineties. Time and time again, new legal measures are proposed and the courts have to decide \u2013 an overview of the current state of affairs.<\/p>\n Dangerous fans: Security regimes in the stadium The commercialization of german football made the skirmishes between fans and the use of pyrotechnics in stadiums a matter of security politics. This is not just about the safety of large crowds, but foremost about certain groups of fans, who are considered to be a threat to public order.<\/p>\n Smart City: The city as data-oil-field<\/strong> \u201cSmart City\u201d is a current trend in municipal politics. Comprehensive sensor technology is supposed to lead to more effective governance and control of traffic and resources. The \u201csmart city\u201d, however, shall also be a \u201csecure city\u201d. Interconnected CCTV and predictive policing are two buzzwords in this context that also revives old conceptions of surveillance and control.<\/p>\n EU Security Research Programme: lacking Democracy and Transparency By 2020, the European Union will have invested over 3 billion Euros in the European Security Research Programme, which is supposed to develop \u201cinnovative technologies and solutions that address security gaps and lead to a reduction in the risk from security threats.\u201d In practice, the programme has been dominated by corporations and major national research institutes who seem intent on introducing a surveillance society in the name of public security.<\/p>\n The Reid Method of Interrogation and its Traces in Germany The \u201eReid\u201c method of interrogation is being discussed critically in the USA for a few years. Police officers from Bavaria, who participated in training for the method in the early 2000s, have been involved in two major cases: In the investigation of the killing of the nine year old Peggy Knobloch, police in 2002 obtained a false confession from a mentally ill man. The real murderer never was found. In the murder series, committed by the National Socialist Underground (NSU), police ignored during a decade the racist background.<\/p>\n Police shootings and shooting training Between 1990 and 2017 276 persons died in Germany due to police shootings. In many cases, the victims were mentally ill or disoriented; often they held a knife in their hands. Legitimization of fatal shooting via police law has become exceptional; most of the cases are justified as self-defence. 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\n<\/strong>by Bernd Belina<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Jenny K\u00fcnkel<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Nora Keller<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Volker Eick<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Wolfgang Hecker<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Anna Kern<\/p>\n
\nby Nils Erik Flick<\/p>\nNon-thematic contributions<\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>by Chris Jones<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Heike Kleffner<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>by Oesten Baller<\/p>\n