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'Immigrants or refugees do not have a higher tendency to commit crime and there
is no correlation between the proportion of immigrants in a given district and
the local crime rate, according to a new analysis of the latest German crime
statistics carried out by the renowned ifo institute.
The Munich-based institute correlated the latest national crime stats from 2018
to 2023 with location-specific data in the new study to show why the fact that
immigrants are overrepresented in crime statistics had nothing to do with where
they came from.
Migrants tend to settle in urban areas, where there is more population density,
more nightlife, and more people in public spaces at all hours of the day. That
means the general crime rate is higher, and crime suspects are just as likely
to be German as of foreign background. In other words, districts with higher
levels of "immigrant" crime also have higher crime rates among Germans.
"These places increase the risk of becoming perpetrators for residents,
regardless of nationality, due to the infrastructure, economic situation,
police presence or population density," the study said.
The researchers pointed to other reasons why immigrants tend to be
overrepresented in crime figures: Immigrants are generally younger and more
often male than the German population — but those, according to the
researchers, were less important contributing factors.'
Via Christoph S.
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