The Essen police have now published their police crime statistics (PKS).
The numbers: alarming. Whether among children, young people or adults:
crime against foreigners is increasing rapidly. When it comes to violent
crime, even people without a German passport make up the majority of
suspects. The number of knife crimes is also increasing dramatically.
Crime
in the Essen police area continues to increase. According to the latest
police statistics, 69,049 crimes were registered in 2023, which
corresponds to an increase of 15 percent compared to the previous year
in 2022. A total of 25,164 suspects were identified. Of these, 10,294
people did not have a German passport – meaning the number of foreign
suspects rose by 19 percent within a year.
This means: The proportion of foreign suspects climbs to around 41 percent. In 2022 it was still 38 percent.
If suspects have another nationality in addition to German, they are statistically assigned to the “German” category.
non-German residents in the Essen area make up 16.9 percent of the
total population of 128,335. Non-Germans were disproportionately
represented among the suspects, compared to their share of the
population (18.6 percent).
Increase in crime among foreign children and young people
What
is particularly striking is that more and more foreign children and
young people are committing crimes in Essen. The number of non-German
suspects under the age of 21 rose by 21.4 percent in just one year.
Among
children under 14, the number of non-German suspects increases by 18
percent (2023: 430 people) – while the same number among German children
only increases by 1 percent (2023: 581 people).
There is also
an increase of 15 percent in the number of non-German young people, with
854 people in 2023. Among German young people, on the other hand, there
was only an increase of 7 percent last year (1,505 suspected people).
Among
adolescents between the ages of 18 and 21, foreign crime increases by
32 percent. 717 non-German suspects were identified in 2023, compared to
544 in the previous year. For adolescent Germans, however, the number
only increased from 1,027 to 1,176 (+15 percent).
In plain language this means: Crime among foreign children, young people and adolescents is increasing significantly more than among Germans. |
the Essen police area (city of Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr),
foreigners account for around 55 percent of violent crime. In 2022, the
proportion of non-Germans was still 42 percent.
This means that
the majority of all these violent crimes are now committed by non-German
suspects (in 2023 these were 1,089 non-German people out of a total of
1,998 suspects).
Violent crime includes, for example, murder,
rape, sexual assault and assault, robbery, predatory extortion,
dangerous and serious bodily harm, female genital mutilation or
extortionate human trafficking.
But non-German suspects are also represented above average in other crimes:
- In
the crime area of pickpocketing, the proportion of foreigners is 85
percent (82 people identified out of a total of 97). In 2022, this
number was 77 percent. - 2,333 people without a German passport
were caught shoplifting (a total of 4,407 suspects). The proportion of
non-German suspects: 53 percent. - The proportion of foreign
suspects in burglaries is 55 percent – in 2022 this was still 45. Of a
total of 287 suspects caught, 158 were not German. - There is also a high proportion of sexual harassment : 46 percent. Of a total of 160 suspects, 74 were not German.
- In
street robberies, the proportion of non-German suspects is 46 percent. A
total of 184 people were identified, including 84 who did not have
German citizenship.
The nationalities of the non-German suspects: Syria, Turkey, Romania, Poland, Serbia, Iraq, Bulgaria, Morocco, Afghanistan and Italy. |
crime in the Essen area also continues to rise. A knife was used as a
murder weapon in 311 cases – 38 percent more than in the previous year
(229 cases). Last year there were 255 knife victims. 36 percent of the
crimes were committed in public spaces, such as streets, paths and
squares.
Explosive: Of the 238 suspects identified, 43 percent
were non-German. Among the 103 people without a German passport, 42
were immigrants.
The use of the knife is increasing for
robbery (2023: 57 crimes, 2022: 39), threats (2023: 92 crimes, 2022: 77)
and bodily harm (2023: 95 crimes, 2022: 66).
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