Overview

• Dunja Hayali’s latest Am Puls episode probes how safe people feel in German public spaces through patrol ride-alongs, victim testimonies and expert commentary.
• Police figures cited in the program show reported knife attacks rising 10.8 percent to 9,917 between 2022 and 2024, while a survey displayed indicates around 40 percent feel unsafe.
• On-patrol footage at Bremen Hauptbahnhof portrays stressed responders, with Hayali observing that officers at times “somehow seem powerless.”
• FOCUS highlights a case in which a Ghanaian suspect was not detained after a stop because fragmented state databases withheld key information, renewing debate over analytics tools such as Palantir and data-sharing rules.
• The film juxtaposes personal attack accounts with researcher Julia Ebner’s finding that studies do not support a causal migration–crime link, and it showcases Mechelen’s camera-heavy, rules-plus-integration approach as a contested reference model.