Just a few years ago observers could get the impression that members of certain extended families are inviolable.
Benjamin Jendro from the Police Union (GdP) remembers a time when criminals could act without feeling the consequences.
They had sold unpaid shisha tobacco and went to the job center with a Rolex on their wrist.
Nobody reported them because they did not trust themselves or thought it was pointless.
Even if someone ended up in court, says Jendro, they often got away with parole.
That has changed.
What happened on Thursday under cover of darkness was another blow to organized crime in Berlin.