Survey on identity checks by the police in Freiburg.

Dear participant,


My name is Brian Bundi Kaburu. I am a member of the BIPoC * group Freiburg and 

I have been researching about police brutality and racial profiling in Freiburg. For this purpose, I created this survey with the help of friends to get a more detailed picture to this matter. Unfortunately, it is often the case that racial profiling and police brutality are dismissed as individual cases and there is no or hardly any statistical data on them.


Our goal is to get an overview of the situation in Freiburg and to unmask and address the issue of racial profiling. This survey includes a total of 50 questions; 21 multiple choice questions and 19 open-end questions.


Trigger warning: Some questions can be retraumatising. We would therefore like to encourage you to take good care of yourself when compleating the survey. Please feel free to stop the survey at any time incase some questions arouse much emotional pain or for other reasons

. If you want, you can also contact the Self Care Safe (r) Space of the BIPoC * Group Freiburg via Instagram, Facebook or email, but you should be aware that this is a self-created empowerment room for those faced by racism and it is not a professional psychological support space.


The average time to fill up the questions for this survey is around 10-30 minutes, depending on your experiences with the police. Inorder for us to anaylse the Survey successfully, it is important that you fill out the all the questions appropriately with the exception of the optional questions that are marked as such and mandatory questions that you cannot answer, you answer under the answer category "Other" with an X as an answer).


The survey is anonymous, your details cannot be traced back to your person. However, we would reserve the right to use the results for activisim, research and awareness-raising purposes against Racial Profling. With your participation you agree to this.


Thank you for the participation.


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Survey on identity checks by the police in Freiburg.

A) Personal information

1

Do you live inFreiburg or how often are you in Freiburg?

2

Age

Please key in your age
3

Gender / Pronoun

4

External perception: How are you read? What gender do others attribute to you?

5

How are you perceived by majority of the society members? (e.g. Black / indigenous / person of color / white / Sinti_zzi, Rom_nji, Manouche, Ashkali and Jenische / ...)

If you have any questions about positioning, please read here: https://glossar.neuemedienmacher.de/?s=POC&post_type=encyclopediahttps://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-bipoc.html https://weiterenken.de/de/sintizze-und-romnja https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/2000926-Roma-and-Sinti.pdf
6

How long have you been residing in Germany

Please key in your age if you were born in Germany

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B) Second Part of the survey

7

Have you ever been identity checked by the police in Freiburg?

please choose one answer
8

How often have you been identity checked by the police?

Please choose one answer

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C) Third Part of the survey

We are aware that you might have already experienced several identity checks by the police, unfortunately we can only consider one for evaluation reasons. Therefore, when answering the following questions, please try particulary to remember the identity check that is strongly impregnanted in your memory.

9

Were the police officers in their official uniform?

Please choose one answer
10

Did the police identify themselves before the identity check if they were not in their uniform?

Please choose one answer
11

Where did the identity check take place?

Please enter the place where this happened, if you can remember the exact place or location of the control.
12

At what time was the identity check done?

If you no longer know the exact time, information such as night, noon, evening, morning, is sufficient.
13

What means of transport did you use?

Please choose one answer
14

Did the police explicitly give you a reason for the identity check?

Please choose one answer
15

If they did,

Please choose one answer
16

What was the reason?

17

In your opinion, was the reason justified or understandable?

Please choose one answer
18

Did you feel that the reason for the control was based on stereotypes or stigmatizations such as racial profiling?

Please choose one answer
19

If yes

State what reason you suspect behind the police identity check, or also in what form you may have felt discriminated against by the police or generally criminalized .
20

Did you express this perception?

Please choose one answer
21

If you did, how did the police react to your perception?

please choose one answer
22

Did you ask for the personal operation number of the police/ the name of the head officer/ the name of the police officers' station and did you get an answer?

please choose one answer
23

Were the police respectful to you during the inspection?

please choose one answer
24

How did you perceive the posture and tone of the police?

25

Did you feel safe during the identity check??

Please choose one answer
26

If not, why?

27

If not, what would you have wished for to make you feel safe?

28

Were there witnesses at the scene?

Please choose one answer
29

Did the police react to the witness

Please coose one answer
30

If yes, how did they react to the witness?

31

Were you arrested after the identity check?

Please choose one answer
32

If you were arrested: Was violence used?

Please choose one answer
33

If you were arrested, were you adequately informed of your rights?

Please choose one answer

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D)Fourth part of the survey

34

Did you talk to other people about this incident?

Please choose one answer
35

Did you contact an official body concerned with such issues about the incident? (e.g. anti-discrimination center)

Please choose one answer
36

If you did, which one

Please enter the official center/agency you contacted
37

Were you satisfied with their support?

Pease choose one answer
38

If not, what would you have hoped for?

39

Did you sue the police officers involved or file a complaint regarding the situation?

Please choose one answer
40

Was your complaint processed?

Please choose one answer
41

If it was processed, how long did it take?

42

If it was processed, were you satisfied with how your complaint was dealt with?

Please choose one answer
43

If you were dissatisfied with the processing, what would you have otherwise wished for?

44

How often do you think about the incident?

Please choose one answer
45

If the control took place in the presence of other people (public place) or friends, neighbors etc. (at home): Do you feel that the way these people treat you has changed? Are you seen or perceived differently?

Please choose one answer
46

If yes: How?

(E.g criminalized, pity)
47

Has the incident changed your relationship with the police?

Pleaase choose one answer
48

Are you afraid of future identity checks by the police?

Please choose one answer
49

Are you avoiding places where racial profiling might or takes place frequently?

Please choose one answer
50

If yes, which places are those?

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Thank you for participating!


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