The article documents German municipal anti‑harassment posters that depict native Germans as the harassers while recent pool‑side assaults were allegedly carried out by recent migrants. This 'reverse casting' may sanitize messaging but also miscommunicates where risk is concentrated, weakening prevention and public trust.
— If public campaigns systematically invert offender demographics, institutions may be trading safety and credibility for ideology, reshaping debates over how governments should communicate about crime.
2025.10.07
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Cologne’s 'Ich sag’s' posters showing a blonde German boy harassing a brown girl and Büren’s posters with a red‑haired woman groping a Black man, alongside a mayor blaming 'high temperatures' after a group assault in Gelnhausen.
2015.12.31
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The Wikipedia article documents the Cologne and other New Year’s Eve attacks and the ensuing controversy over how municipalities framed offender demographics and safety messages; this directly connects to the existing idea that public-safety campaigns can misrepresent who is at risk and thereby mislead prevention efforts (the article shows victims and witnesses describing 'North African' perpetrators and the later debate over messaging).
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