The people in place X should compare themselves to people in place X, first and foremost. Germany has almost never been safer than it is today, with all of the immigrants, with all of the fear, with all of the psyops, it’s an incredibly safe place to live by global standards and by German standards.
That’s my point. The data shows it, living in Germany shows it, and I think this is true for most places on earth.
So you’re correct in saying the crime rate went up in 2023, but saying it’s a 15 year high is misleading, including comparing it to 1993 because there’s a difference in population.
Looking at macrotrends.net the crime rate per 100k in 1993 was 1.67. The data here only goes up to 2021 but it’s 0.83. Even going back a few years to the highest peak, 2016 that’s still 1.17. So based on this data Germany was 1.5-2x more dangerous in 1993 than it was in 2021. There’s just more people living here than there ever has been. Like even if you take the 214k number and look back for the last time it was that high, it was 2007. The population hasn’t grown that much but the demographics surely have changed, and it’s now as bad as it was in 2007.
Now I didn’t live in Germany in 2007, but I’d bet I’d struggle to find someone who honestly believed 2003-2010 (when the # of reports was above 200k) was a dangerous period in Germany. Like it’s all just the news cycle mate, they get to slap a big 8% on the year over year change and they get to run that for a couple of weeks throughout the year. In reality, it’s not the migrants or the cannibis laws I saw one article suggest, it’s the fact that wealth inequality has continued to worsen not just in Germany but globally and that will cost us (and everyone) something fierce.
We’re seeing it in the US, we saw it in Germany last century, and we are marching onward to more inequality with the CDU and Merz leading the way.
As you can see, those 90ies numbers were a peak. The best explanation that I have heard was that those came from eastern European mafia wars. That’s not the German baseline. For that you must go further back.
In the 80ies there were 800 homicides per year for 60 million in the west which is a 1.3 rate. The east had 2263 homicides in 30 years for 16.5 million which is a rate of 0.46. So for the east it’s still almost twice their baseline now.
I have put the violent crimes in relation to the size of the population.
2023: 84.7 million - 254.0 per 100,000
1993: 81.3 million - 184.3 per 100,000
I agree with you that wealth inequality is the major problem and it’s wrong to blame immigrants for the increase in crime. But it is not convincing to argue that there are no problems and that the current situation has to be accepted.
True.
The unit is suspects, not convicts.
But people in Germany compare themselves to Switzerland and Poland.
The people in place X should compare themselves to people in place X, first and foremost. Germany has almost never been safer than it is today, with all of the immigrants, with all of the fear, with all of the psyops, it’s an incredibly safe place to live by global standards and by German standards.
That’s my point. The data shows it, living in Germany shows it, and I think this is true for most places on earth.
Unfortunately for 2023
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-violent-crime-reaches-15-year-high-report/a-68758122
Coming from 150,000 in 1993. https://www.gut-leben-in-deutschland.de/indicators/security/crime/
So you’re correct in saying the crime rate went up in 2023, but saying it’s a 15 year high is misleading, including comparing it to 1993 because there’s a difference in population.
Looking at macrotrends.net the crime rate per 100k in 1993 was 1.67. The data here only goes up to 2021 but it’s 0.83. Even going back a few years to the highest peak, 2016 that’s still 1.17. So based on this data Germany was 1.5-2x more dangerous in 1993 than it was in 2021. There’s just more people living here than there ever has been. Like even if you take the 214k number and look back for the last time it was that high, it was 2007. The population hasn’t grown that much but the demographics surely have changed, and it’s now as bad as it was in 2007.
Now I didn’t live in Germany in 2007, but I’d bet I’d struggle to find someone who honestly believed 2003-2010 (when the # of reports was above 200k) was a dangerous period in Germany. Like it’s all just the news cycle mate, they get to slap a big 8% on the year over year change and they get to run that for a couple of weeks throughout the year. In reality, it’s not the migrants or the cannibis laws I saw one article suggest, it’s the fact that wealth inequality has continued to worsen not just in Germany but globally and that will cost us (and everyone) something fierce.
We’re seeing it in the US, we saw it in Germany last century, and we are marching onward to more inequality with the CDU and Merz leading the way.
You must be talking about homicide: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/deu/germany/murder-homicide-rate
As you can see, those 90ies numbers were a peak. The best explanation that I have heard was that those came from eastern European mafia wars. That’s not the German baseline. For that you must go further back.
In the 80ies there were 800 homicides per year for 60 million in the west which is a 1.3 rate. The east had 2263 homicides in 30 years for 16.5 million which is a rate of 0.46. So for the east it’s still almost twice their baseline now.
I have put the violent crimes in relation to the size of the population.
https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Population/Current-Population/Tables/lrbev02a.html
2023: 84.7 million - 254.0 per 100,000 1993: 81.3 million - 184.3 per 100,000
I agree with you that wealth inequality is the major problem and it’s wrong to blame immigrants for the increase in crime. But it is not convincing to argue that there are no problems and that the current situation has to be accepted.