I was looking at headline news from Spiegel today, and this two liner popped out: 'German police confirmed 5.63 million crimes in 2022...with an upsurge in burglary situations, plain old robberies, and pickpocketing'.
More than 2021? Yeah.
What the police union says? There's a need for urgent action. Course, mayors will say that they've all bulked up another 3-to-5 percent since 2015.
Locally, I review the Wiesbaden/Mainz police blotter at least once or twice a week. I'll just say that you see a fair amount of break-ins....in homes and business operations. This past couple of days....the Wiesbaden police noted a sudden up-tick in pickpocket crimes in the mid-town area.
A lot of this due to limited action in the Covid era (2020, and 2021)? I would suggest that things cooled off in spring of 2022....people were out and about more, with more criminals showing up to hunt for opportunities.
If you go walk on the shopping district....you can sense people being more careful...purses more tightly controlled, and people eyeballing anyone that looks out of place. A few weeks ago, they had some report locally where a person was returning to their car in underground parking and someone came up attempting to rob them (in the mid-day).
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