Racial Profiling: The Police Tactic That Must Not Exist

Have you ever been checked by the police for no apparent reason? People with an immigrant background are more likely to have this experience. Evidence of racial profiling, of a racist police force?

Here, the activist Biplab Basu reports on a momentous control that led him to a European court.

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Officers of the Federal Police on a platform of Berlin's main train station (symbolic image)

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Marius Schwarz / IMAGO

Also in this episode: The police trade unionist Alexander Poitz (GdP) reacts to the accusation of racist controls. And Rafael Behr from the Hamburg Police Academy explains why the police need a cultural change.

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