The Berlin government likes to pretend that it is particularly friendly to minorities. But in future, when attacks against Jews and homosexuals take place, the police will no longer be allowed to report them to associations that help the victims. The data protection commissioner ensures this.
In future, the Berlin police may not transmit data on assaults to victim support institutions and counselling centres – because of data protection. This is what the data protection commissioner of the Berlin law enforcement agencies has decreed, as reported by the newspaper Berliner Zeitung. His reasoning in a memo seems absurd: “In order to prevent re-identification”, the information transmitted must not describe the crime, nor the place, for example the street, the time of the crime or the age of those involved. A note obtained by the Berliner Zeitung states that any reference to a person must be prevented: “The reference to a person includes all information that refers to a person. Every description of human behaviour or human characteristics has a reference to a person. The description of a crime therefore relates to a person.
Every year in Berlin alone, thousands of people become victims of insults and attacks that are homophobic, racist or anti-Semitic. If these offences exceed the threshold of criminal liability, the police initiate proceedings. For this purpose, they have so far regularly sent anonymised information to associations such as the gay anti-violence project Maneo, the Research and Information Centre on Anti-Semitism (Rias), which registered more than 1,000 anti-Semitic incidents in 2020, or Reachout, the counselling centre for victims of racist and anti-Semitic violence.
From this, they develop proposals for the prevention of violence, prepare reports for the public, derive political demands. This is now made more difficult by the data protection officer of the law enforcement agencies.
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/berlin-polizei-uebergriffe-melden-datenschutz/
Editor’s note: 99.9% of all attacks on Jews and gays in Germany are committed by Muslims, could that be the reason for this censorship measure?