That's because their solution was to judge someone's criminal nature based on the colour of their skin, as opposed to the likelihood of them committing the crimes they're being "prevented" from committing.
Christ, increased police presence would probably have sufficed.
now you're just pissed because underneath you know cultural profiling works and it unsettles your belief.
btw you cannot magically materialize unlimited police at the correct time/place. what kind of fantasy world you live in? they bolstered numbers however they could, but covering a city spreads them all a lot.
I like your little euphemism there. Let's not sugarcoat this, it's profiling people based on the colour of their skin, and that, if you'll excuse the bluntness, is utterly fucking stupid. It doesn't "unsettle my belief", it goes completely against it.
I'm curious for the source of your assertion that racial profiling works, though. Seems like security forces of the world are missing a trick if you're right.
The Cologne police also don't have to cover the entire city, just the main parts where people gather. This can be made easier by holding official gatherings or outlining places where people can celebrate together. Strategic placement is better than trying to assuage the town in security. You don't need unlimited police to do that.
Prevention is better than the cure, especially if that cure involves labeling people criminals based on skin colour.
This is what prevention looks like. This is what showing that the police is present looks like.
Now I'm not super good at neither English, German, nor German-to-English legal terms, but it says these people where "detained". It makes a difference between these and those "arrested overnight". From context, it looks like all this means is that these detainees were stopped and made to identify themselves. What is this if not the police making the statement that "we are here, know who you are, don't try anything"?
Remember, Cologne has a populace of a million, with lots of partiers streaming in from outside for the celebrations. 100 people was held overnight, and there's no indication in the article this isn't the entire sum of arrests for the night, including the usual unruly drunks and criminals. Is that a number to be upset over?
"But scriver", my make-believe dialogue partner objects, "what's the problem isn't the amount of people detained, but how the detainees were selected". But if this group is known to have been disproportionally perpetrating these crimes last year, should the police instead just pretend those facts does not exist?