Transformation and Continuity \u2013 Four Decades of Critique of \u201cInternal Security\u201d<\/strong> Founded in 1978, CILIP is a child of the seventies which were marked by the experience of the fight against terrorism, the occupational bans against left wing people and a technocratic police reform. The subjects and focal points of the journal varied over the years \u2013 from protest policing to covert police methods to \u2013 once again since 2001 \u2013 anti-terrorism. Civil liberties as guiding principles meant not only search for new forms of monitoring of police and intelligence services, but also reflections on alternatives to police or at least a fundamental reform.<\/p>\n Security, Prevention and Police: Civil Rights and the Transformation of Domestic Security<\/strong> The field of domestic security has undergone fundamental changes in the past decades. New concepts and practices, in particular concerning the police, are not so much aimed at specific events such as crimes or tangible threats anymore, and instead claim to accomplish comprehensive security. Domestic security is becoming a permanent practice tasked with the handling of potential problems as soon and as sweeping as possible. This preventive alignment leads to the dissolution of boundaries within criminal, police and criminal procedure laws, as well as to the weakening of judicial oversight.<\/p>\n Civil Rights in Movement: Defending Democracy in the Streets<\/strong> Over the past 40 years, a diverse array of social movements has come to the fore, and protests in the streets have become much more common. This development has been assisted by various landmark decisions by the Federal Constitutional Court \u2013 starting with the Brokdorf decision in 1985. Still: no matter the issue, organizers of and participants in demonstrations almost always have to deal with government surveillance and interventions including restrictions, bans, checks, violence or arrests. Defending democracy and human rights in the streets continues to be vital.<\/p>\n Surveil and Exclude: What Connects Neoliberalism and Unchecked Penal Power<\/strong> Punishment and control correlate with the mode of production. They are conveyed through ideology: e.g. they demonstrate the consequences of not working. Neoliberalism continued this technique of governance, albeit more excessive and more exclusive. Prospering Fordism allowed for limited depenalization (but hardly decriminalization). This responded to criminal law\u2019s legitimacy deficit. Neoliberal moral panics yielded new legitimizations: They transformed a sense of social unease about inequality into social fear. To nevertheless make abolitionism conceivable again, knowledge of legitimization must be scrutinized, and alternatives to control and punishment pointed out.<\/p>\n Camp Systems: Gaps in the History of the Private Security Industries<\/strong> Even though the national-socialist internment, deportation and destruction of the European Jews was a state-run (a mainly police-run) \u201centerprise\u201d, the industrial and trading capital, and with them the security industries, participated actively in the surveillance of Jews, forced laborers and prisoners of war and the respective camps. These gaps in the history of the sector are to be considered before it is made an integral part of our future camp systems \u2013 by way of a separate law.<\/p>\n Policing the Poor: Police at the Fringes of Society<\/strong> The \u201epoor\u201d are no longer those whose protests in the form of \u201cfood riots\u201d have to be put down by the police (and the military). By the means of welfare policy, the edge is taken off poverty. The poor are individualized \u2013 and thereby pacified and disciplined. Only a small part of the poor population is dealt with by the police: beggars, homeless people and junkies, youth subcultures, and migrants.<\/p>\n Inspection at the Day Laborers Market: Racism and the Securitization of Social Issues<\/strong> With a new law, the German federal government is planning to ban so-called day laborer exchanges \u2013 ostensibly for the protection of the workers. In fact, these self-organized job markets are more than just instruments of exploitation. They represent meeting points as well, in particular for workers from EU states. The fact that more repression does not protect the migrant workers but instead further marginalizes them was proven by a police and customs raid in Munich in 2013, which can be considered a harbinger of the new draft law.<\/p>\n The EU Border Regime in the Mediterranean: Acts of Mercy and Calculated Deaths<\/strong> Over the last four years, the \u201eWatch the Med Alarmphone\u201d has been offering an around-the-clock telephone hotline for refugees in distress on the Mediterranean Sea. In 2018, the clashes at the Libyan coast were the focus of attention. Preventing the arrival of refugees in Italy was pursued through the criminalization of the civil rescue fleet. The EU instead supports the Libyan coast guard. Italy engages in a policy of closed ports.<\/p>\n (In)Justice at the Border. Human Rights Interventions Against Push-Backs<\/strong> Push-backs violate fundamental human rights but are nevertheless systematically employed at the EU\u2019s external borders \u2013 e.g. at the fences of Ceuta and Melilla, the Spanish enclaves in Africa. The Guardia Civil regularly pushes refugees and migrants who have managed to reach the Spanish side of the border fortifications back to Morocco through the fences. In October 2017, the ECHR\u2019s third chamber ruled this treatment to be in violation of the European Convention on Human Right\u2019s prohibition of collective deportations. The final decision by the Grand Chamber is expected in 2019.<\/p>\n Automated Identity Verification in Asylum Procedures: Computers Deciding the Fate of Refugees<\/strong> Over the last few years, the Federal Agency of Migration and Refugees has increasingly been counting on IT systems to determine and verify the identities of refugees. But the systems are causing problems: they are prone to errors, and heavily impinge on the privacy rights of those seeking protection. Asylum procedures are further dehumanized, fates are increasingly entrusted to machines.<\/p>\n What We Can Know: Production and Management of Knowledge Within the Police<\/strong> With its organizationally established secrecy, the police restricts the view from outside. It governs the knowledge regarding the situations it polices. In its outward communication, the police manages to present itself as a protagonist that produces extraordinarily objective and neutral knowledge through formal and bureaucratic techniques. This largely unchallenged position as an expert institution makes police assessments and the actions they entail widely inaccessible to review and critique.<\/p>\n Knowledge of Racial Police Violence: It Didn\u2019t Happen as Long as Nobody Talks About It<\/strong> In order to make visible the issue of police racism, the experiences of people of color concerning the discrimination and violence they are subjected to by the police must be validated, and the reports of affected people and witnesses must be documented and made public. This is the work the \u201cKampagne f\u00fcr die Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt\u201c in Berlin has dedicated itself to.<\/p>\n Racial Profiling in Germany: Not a Question of Individual Wrongdoing<\/strong> Racial Profiling is a term used for racist police checks during which people are subjected to inspection based on phenotypic attributes, especially skin color. This discriminatory practice is encouraged by laws that empower police to conduct checks without specific cause. These checks are largely carried out in areas predominantly inhabited by migrants. They are not the result of individual racist attitudes, but rather significant evidence of institutionalized racism.<\/p>\n There Will Be Censorship: On the Ban of \u201elinksunten.indymedia\u201c<\/strong> In August 2017, the Federal Ministry of the Interior had the left-wing online platform \u201elinksunten.indymedia.org\u201c banned. In the wake of the ban, the homes of the site\u2019s alleged operators were searched, as was a leftist cultural center. With this, the Interior Ministry not only disregards the freedom of press and of speech, but once again ignores the rule of separation of police and intelligence services. The domestic intelligence service\u2019s \u201cinsights\u201d were supposed to justify the selection of those affected by the searches, and the service is to be tasked with the assessment of the confiscated data and documents.<\/p>\n State of Emergency and Social Movements: The State of Emergency in France 2015-17<\/strong> After the November 2015 attacks, president Fran\u00e7ois Hollande declared a state of emergency that was eventually extended until November 2017. The emergency laws permit measures such as searching homes and putting people under house arrest. But France\u2019s police and security forces don\u2019t need a state of emergency to employ extraordinary violence. This is evidenced by the handling of the \u201cyellow vests\u201d.<\/p>\n Staging a State of Emergency<\/strong> The G20 summit was met by the German police with one of the largest and most expensive campaigns in the history of the Federal Republic. And yet, the goal of a city under complete control proved unattainable. The Berlin group *andere zust\u00e4nde erm\u00f6glichen (*aze) and the sociologist Peter Ullrich talk about riots, media polarization, and the limits of the rule of law.<\/p>\n Sand in the Gears. Fighting for the Right to Assembly<\/strong> A central characteristic of the fundamental right to assembly is the recognition that protests have to be unreglemented and free from state intrusion. They shall \u2013 in the words of the Constitutional Court \u2013 \u201esave the political machine from petrification in busy routines\u201c. To create the necessary public awareness new forms of action are required. They are confronted with a law on assemblies based on regulations and sanctions which is still rooted in the fifties and police forces equipped with the newest surveillance technology.<\/p>\n Monitoring Police Conduct: Difficult Paths<\/strong> In the administrative courts, complaints against the police can lead to the general establishment of unlawfulness at most. In the criminal courts, police witnesses are regularly considered to be more credible than civilians. New forms of oversight would not only have to be independent, but also include broad investigative powers. Sadly, the ombudsmen\u2019s offices established in several of the German states have so far been overwhelmed by the task of monitoring the police.<\/p>\n European Police Congress 2019: Commodification of Security<\/strong> On February 19 and 20, 2019, the private journal Beh\u00f6rdenSpiegel<\/em> hosted the 22nd<\/sup> European Police Congress. 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