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Berlin. The Berlin police have new language rules and with them a new controversy. The LKA had called for terms such as “asylum-seekers”, “refugees” and “southerners” to be avoided in future.
Instead, police officers would refer to “asylum seekers”, “protection seekers”, and “West Asians”. “The reality of life in Berlin is that young people from Turkey, Iraq or Lebanon are often involved in crime,” the head of the German police union (DPolG), Rainer Wendt, told the “Bild-Zeitung”. Because of politically correct language rules, he fears a “veil of reality”. “The neutralization of language and the adaptation to the politically correct use of language by the left-wing political environment is meant to suggest a harmless reality,” Wendt said.
But those who remember “the ‘Cologne New Year’ a few years ago” know that not “everything is just colorful and varied, but that, for example, even the migration policy of recent years has its downsides: the best language school it’s no help.” Because of the problems to overcome in Berlin, such as clan crime, Islamists and climate glue, such recommendations for new terms “acted as a mockery of the workforce.” The interior expert of the Union Christoph de Vries (CDU) told the same newspaper: “Police officers in Berlin have practically the toughest job in our country. They deserve trust and political support instead of a green left language code and instructions from above. ”
De Vries also sees no legal basis for this: “How is it that established legal terms like ‘asylum seekers’ are erased from common usage and politically friendly terms ‘protection seekers’ are prescribed instead? I see no legal basis for that. There is a general suspicion behind this and a deep distrust of the police in the red-red-green Senate. This nonsense must stop.” The internal policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Alexander Throm (CDU), also criticizes the new “linguistic etiquette” used by the Berlin police: “The misunderstood consideration by the red-red-green is out of place in a description of the perpetrator. A description must be objectively accurate and understandable to all.”
This also includes all external characteristics of an author. The Berlin Senate should support police officers in their “important and difficult task of fighting crime and not constantly stab them in the back with bureaucratic hurdles,” said the CDU politician.
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