Germany's crime rate lowest in 26 years

I have friends in the US seriously looking into moving to Germany. One reason - crimes rates are going down fast.

From Politico:

The new figures show a drop in crime of 5.1 percent over the previous year, with 5.76 million crimes reported.

"The number of crimes committed in Germany is the lowest since 1992," Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced at a presentation of 2017 police crime statistics in Berlin. "The frequency of fewer than 7,000 cases for every 100,000 inhabitants is unprecedented, even in a 30-year comparison."

Earlier this morning Trump lied in a Tweet, claiming "Crime in Germany is way up," putting the blame on "migrants."

However, the areas that have seen the biggest upticks are financial crimes, "which increased 28.7% to 74,070 cases, as the result of a complex investigation which was completed in 2017," anti-Semitics offenses, which rose 2.5% over the previous year ("Almost all of these offenses can be attributed to the right-wing milieu (94%)"), and crimes by left wing extremists rose 15.6%, "largely due to the rioting during the G-20 summit in Hamburg," says the report issued by the German Government.

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