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Only two weeks left to sign the petition against „racial/ethnic profiling“ in Germany

During the past two weeks, 8,000 people have signed the petition against the police’s discriminatory identity checks. Over 15,000 signatures were obtained for the first petition that was submitted to the German Parliament.

http://www.stoppt-racial-profiling.de/english/

The petition can be signed by non German citizens and residents!

The practice of identity checks without suspicion conflicts the Equal Rights Law in the German Constitution. The Appeals Court in Koblenz emphasized this with its ruling in October. „Regardless of how many signatures the petition will generate in the end, the public’s and media’s interest in racial/ethnic profiling during the past few months shows that the Federal Government must finally deal with this police practice“, stated Tahir Della of the Initiative Black People in Germany (ISD).

Concrete suggestions for Germany can be obtained by looking at Great Britain. After public pressure, the 1997 Stephan Lawrence Investigation Commission published a list of extensive recommendations. At the same time, it was officially determined that institutional racism existed within the English police, and the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) was replaced with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). This step strengthened the public’s trust to report police abuse.

ISD, since its inception, and other civil organizations have vehemently attempted to obtain the German Parliament’s focus on institutional racism and were over and over rejected. „The issue is that the existence of structural racism is not acknowledged for various reasons – that must finally change“, said Vera Egenberger from the Equal Rights Office (BUG). With the petition, ISD and BUG demand the elimination of the federal law regulation that allows unwarranted identity checks by police and to incorporate protection from discriminatory processes coming from all state agencies by outlawing them in the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). In addition, the petition demands the establishment of an independent complaint body that efficiently deals with police misdemeanors and requests adequate training for the police force as well as a statistical documentation of equal rights violations.

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here a instruction to sign the petition:

"Petition mitzeichnen" means "Sign the petition" - please click one of the links.

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This is an online form to register with the website in order to sign the petition.

1. Please enter your email address
2. Please enter a password. It must have include at least 8 characters have at least one capital letter, one small letter and one number or symbol
3. Type in your password again
4. Optional - type in a username / pseudonym
5. Click here if you would like to use the forum and would like to appear under your pseudonym
6. Title - choose between "Ms" or "Mrs" (Frau) and "Mr" (Herr)
7. Optional - Professional / Academic title - you can add "Dr." or "Prof." here for example.
8. Your first name
9. Your surname
10. Your street and house number
11. Your postcode (or zip code)
12. Your area / district
13. Your country (for example GB is Great Britain, US is United States)
14. Optional - your organisation
15. Optional - your telephone number
16. Click here to say you accept the data security policy
17. Click here to say you accept the user guidelines
18. Choose one of the options: either "Ich möchte mit meinem vollständigen Vor- und Zunamen in der Mitzeichnerliste geführt werden" (sign, and appear on the website with your full name) or "Ich möchte ohne Namen, nur mit Mitzeichner-Nummer aufgeführt werden" (sign, but only appear as a number).
19. "Jetzt registrieren und mitzeichnen "means "now register and sign the petition