Strangely the outdoor swimming pools in Berlin are unique for a completely different reason. The one or two of them I visited were unique in that the patrons were frisked for weapons on the way in!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
I do see increased police presence during events like Karneval, but that's not unreasonable with tens of thousands of people drinking and partying on the streets.
I wonder what changed in German society?
Your reactions to previous comments speak otherwise.
> More than 99 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim, and less than 0.1 percent of the population is Shia Muslim. Groups together constituting less than 1 percent of the population include Christians, Jews, and Baha'is.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-r...
Yet when I point out that these people have this in common, people say it's bigoted.
Stop pretending that you can say it. You say it every damn time.
It just makes it harder to have a frank discussion because you leave it to the other side to name the group for you. If you argue in bad faith you can even pretend that they brought it up, not you.
I find it disingenuous all around. Like I said, it became ubiquitous in the local debate since the Hamas attacks.
I don't like the accusation of of "bad faith". I don't even know what it is supposed to mean concretely. What defines "the group" exactly, is part of the question. I said more in neighboring threads.
That's kind of the issue here. Anything remotely negative about certain immigrant groups is automatically assumed in bad faith (you must be a racist/nazi) and gets flagged/downvoted and no free discussion on the topic can ever happen.
For a law to be effective it is important that a transgression is addressed with high probability and low delay ( c.f. To Command and Persuade ).
Two decades of Underfunding and therefore understaffing prosecution and courts means that is not the case anymore.
The influx of immigrants is to a degree responsible for this, since it redirected large amounts of money.
Interestingly, the severity of the punishment does not matter as much as it’s certainty. Increasing the punishment associated with a transgression is usually a consequence of the states inability to effectively enforce the existing laws.
Ever increasing penalties e.g. for forms of sexual harassment can therefore be seen as an indicator of a gradual weakening of the executive and judicial branches.