Neue Sicherheitsstrukturen im »neuen« Berlin

Warehousing öffentlichen Raums und staatlicher Gewalt

Abstract

In Berlin (and other big cities) private security agencies are growing rapidly. The expansion of their activity-fields, especially in public spaces, tends to transform the state monopol of legal power in a »private public partnership«. As a consequence public spaces get more and more under private control. Unwelcome groups like poor or homeless people are excluded from using these places.