New crime statistics for Germany: 11.5% of the population are foreigners (people without a German passport) yet their share of inmates in German jails is disproportionately high and has now reached a new record. rp-online.de/politik/deutsc…
In the old states of Germany (West Germany), the proportion of foreign inmates in Hamburg has since 2016 increased from 55% to 61%, 43% to 51% in Berlin, 29% to 33% in Lower Saxony, 26% to 30% in Rhineland-Palatinate, 44% to 48% in Baden-Württemberg, 35% to 41% in Bremen...
...28% to 34% in Schleswig-Holstein and from 24% to 27% the Saarland.
In North Rhine-Westphalia the share of foreign inmates has increased from 33% to 36% since 2015.
Since 2012, Bavaria registered an increase from 31% to 45%.
Three years ago, the the percentage of foreign inmates in Hesse had already been 44.1, which only climbed slightly to 44.6 percentage.
The same is true in East German states. For example, the share of foreign prison inmates in Saxony increased by 104% since 2016.
An older survey of German jails had shown that 19% of all prison inmates in Germany are Muslim while only representing 5-6% of the total population (in some prisons ~40% of the inmates attend the Friday prayer): huffingtonpost.de/entry/muslime-…
Consider that these statistics do not take into account people with a migration background who possess a German passport. The share of ethnic Germans in German jails is very likely even smaller than the above statistics suggest.
When Americans say that their immigrants commit less crimes than citizens: "Gangs are responsible for an average of 48% of violent crime in most jurisdictions, and up to 90% in other jurisdictions. Hispanics accounted for 47% of all U.S. gang members, African Americans for 34%."
The number of foreigners in pretrial detention in Germany increased by 26% from 2014 until 2017. Over the same period, the number of Germans in pretrial detention decreased by 8%. ndr.de/nachrichten/ha…
In Berlin, knife crimes have increased by 15% since 2016. In the cases that could be solved, 52% of the perpetrators are foreigners (no German passport). Popular forenames among the German perpetrators include Omar and Ali. bz-berlin.de/berlin/auch-in…
In 2018, foreigners, at about 11.5% of the German population, were 43% of the homicide suspects, 40.6% of the robbery suspects, 38.5% of the rape and sexual assault suspects, and 38.4% of the suspects when it comes to grievous bodily injury. tagesspiegel.de/politik/krimin…
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