DER SPEIGEL Cologne Assaults: Police Report Outlines 'Chaotic and Shameful' New Year's Eve

[CJCRANE]

An internal police protocol has revealed the full extent of the violence in Cologne on New Year's Eve. According to the report, which SPIEGEL has seen, officials were overwhelmed and powerless to help some people calling for help.

Law enforcement officials lost control of the situation in Cologne on New Year's Eve, according to an internal report by Germany's national police, the Bundespolizei, obtained by DER SPIEGEL. The author of the report, dated Jan. 4, is a senior official. He writes: "Women, accompanied or not, literally ran a 'gauntlet' through masses of heavily intoxicated men that words cannot describe." The horde in front of and inside the train station was unmoved by the presence of police.

According to the report, officers encountered many distraught, crying, frightened pedestrians, particularly women and girls. They reported "fights, thefts, sexual assaults against women, etc." Groups of male migrants were repeatedly named as perpetrators.

Identifying those responsible -- especially the perpetrators of sexual assaults -- "was unfortunately no longer possible." The reason: "Security forces were unable to get all of the incidents, assaults, crimes, etc. under control. There were simply too many happening at the same time." Police were frustrated at their inability to help each victim. At times, it wasn't even possible to record all of the complaints that were being lodged.

The report lists several examples of police officers' experiences...

LINK Speigel International:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cologne-attacks-on-new-years-produced-chaos-say-police-a-1070894.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. Hard to see how this won't be problematic for Merkel.

[CJCRANE]

2. It should've been a problem from day one. I don't understand why people are so passive.

It's like there's no common sense or self-preservation instinct left in western society.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I agree. You actually don't have to take in everybody who wants to come in.

Your primary responsibility as a leader of a nation is to the current citizens of that nation--you do what is best FOR THEM.

[CJCRANE]

4. She obviously has her own agenda. But the Germans are known for following their leaders

even when they're insane. Seems like a fatal flaw.

[geek tragedy]

6. Germany's problem is a low birth rate and aging population. They need population growth

to keep their economy from shrinking/imploding. Immigrants provide cheap labor to help fuel growth in the economy.

[Elmergantry]

5. No surprise

When your browbeaten as being intolerantbigotracistislamaphobehaternazixenephobe if you suggest western civilization is worth defending and preserving, you may end up that way.

[Dems to Win]

7. Another scary quote from the article

The author of the report draws a grim conclusion: The actions of the police officers was met with a level of disrespect "like I have never experienced in my 29 years of public service."

Germany relies on people voluntarily following the law, and following requests of police officers. If the newcomers don't share this cultural value, it's going to be tough to be a happy multiculturalist.

I'm a feminist, so I've never bought into multiculturism. This incident is an illustration why -- I don't respect any culture that teaches men it's OK to grope and assault women who aren't wearing burkas, then to thumb their noses at police who try to peacefully put a stop to it.

The world needs to decrease its human population in order to allow us to live on this planet without destroying it. Every society, every country, needs to deal with this issue.

That means we need to figure out how to accommodate a shrinking population without freaking out about 'the economy.'

If I were German, I'd be very unhappy at these actions being taken to 'rescue the economy.' Do humans work for 'the economy'? Or should our economic system work for humans?