Herrnkind: Racial Profiling

Police Department for Training und Further Education and for the Riot Police

Section Further Education

Specialist Field VI – Crime Control –

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Police Suspicion or Racial Profiling?

A new Controversy in Germany

Martin Herrnkind

Herrnkind: Racial Profiling

Police Department for Training und Further Education and for the Riot Police

Section Further Education

Specialist Field VI – Crime Control –

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Racial Profiling

Law Enforcement Acts which were prone to Complaints of Racial Profiling:

� Police Stops of motorists, pedestrians, rail users, subway-riders

� Raids against Roma and Immigrants, especially muslims

� Data Mining („Rasterfahndung“), especially against muslims

� Specific Criminal Investigations, for example DNA-Samples from Roma.

Current Event: Investigation against nine racially motivated murders by a Neo-Nazi cell (so called „National Socialist Underground“ -NSU)

� Prediction of Crime-Committing, for example in Juvenile Justice

Herrnkind: Racial Profiling

Police Department for Training und Further Education and for the Riot Police

Section Further Education

Specialist Field VI – Crime Control –

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Racial Profiling

European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS 04: Germany)

Majority

Turkish Origin

Ex-Yugoslavia

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

11

24

25

being stopped by the police in the past 12 Months?

per cent

Herrnkind: Racial Profiling

Police Department for Training und Further Education and for the Riot Police

Section Further Education

Specialist Field VI – Crime Control –

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Racial Profiling

Herrnkind: Racial Profiling

Police Department for Training und Further Education and for the Riot Police

Section Further Education

Specialist Field VI – Crime Control –

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Racial Profiling

→ incongruity procedure (Harvey Sacks)

→ contextual + cumulative (David Dixon)

Police Suspicion on the Streets

Suspicion

Danger

Morality

Features of Occupational Culture

incongruityprocedure

Herrnkind: Racial Profiling

Police Department for Training und Further Education and for the Riot Police

Section Further Education

Specialist Field VI – Crime Control –

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Racial Profiling

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