During the folk anger everywhere Sodom and Gomorrha senses, the police say: everything relaxed.
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Sigmaringen is a hot plaster, a social focus, rather Bronx in 1975 than Baden 2025. From the outside, the half -timbered idyll on the Danube breakthrough appears as neat and clean as if there was a turnout all year round. And because the unemployment of the district of the same name is deep in the single-digit area, people here would actually be dazzling-if there were no hordes of refugees, the night after night after night, they would be afraid of fire through the Stände in the country and thus make it a no-go area.
In any case, two Bio-German residents indicate this when the ARD reporter Georg Restle asked them not far from his own home region for the report “People in Fear”. “I can no longer let my eleven -year -old daughter run alone through Sigmaringen,” says one and prints on questions about the reason, that explains itself. From the woman’s perspective, a place of terror. And from the police point of view? “Everything relaxes.”
At least means an official on the site of the refugee accommodation and receives encouragement from the guard. “We definitely did not yet have a serious crime where a citizen of Sigmaring would have been affected,” reports Matthias Zok from everyday work. There are definitely violent acts. But rather in the facility, i.e. with each other. Many occupants are just young men who have to live together in a confined space – a combination that makes people vulnerable to physical anger. This would be well outlined by the area of tension between Restle’s documentation.
Three weeks after the publication of the police crime statistics (PKS), there is a bright excitement in – no, not whole country … but with those who make profit from a “people in fear” – or in the words of the subtitle: “how to do with crime politics”. The number of serious crimes from sexual violence to murder and homicide may have indeed increased after years of falling flight in 2024. To conclude from this to more criminal citizens, or like the hate preachers from AfD to »Bild« on more criminal foreigners, cannot be proven.
Because people with the foregoing of the migration are more often controlled and displayed than visible bio -Germans, they are under suspicion twice as often.
On the contrary. Crunchy for 30 minutes, rest of the research team shows the facts behind the numbers. First of all, the PKS does not count any committed, but accepted offenses. And then not only completed again, but also tried. Because people with the foregoing of the migration are more often controlled and displayed than visible bio -Germans, they are twice as suspected of being as a suspicion of their population. Since almost two thirds of all killing and even three quarters of the sexual offenses occur in the “social near field”, ie in the circle of acquaintances, the Freiburg criminologist Dietrich Oberwittler complains “systematic distortions”.
And then go with them (right) demagogues specifically to quota, click and voters. This also applies to those 764 acts of violence that were counted last year at the Dortmund main station and make it one of the supposedly “most dangerous places in Germany”. What is deliberately embezzled by the tabloid press must therefore briefly breathes from the station mission: affected physical assault is not travelers and passers -by, but drug users and homeless, not infrequently perpetrators and victims in personnel.
The crime in particular in particular, criminologist Hans-Jörg Albrecht knows from decades of research, because “mostly remain within social groups”. Young attack young, addicted, addicted, refugees attack refugees. Everything occupied. Only – media users that are prone to manipulation experience little of this. While the subjective feeling of security of Germans has been increasing for years, Paranoia media and their political customers draw an image of collective uncertainty. According to Albrecht, in particular, according to capital crimes, “from a significant increase in the fact that police crime statistics cannot be reconciled will be assumed. To point out this is a large, although slightly staged earnings from Georg Restle Documentation.
Too stupid that all those who only obtain their information from their own, often conspiracy ideological bubble, can only get a little. Even serious media such as the “Tagesschau” sometimes follow the zeitgeist instead of their compass. If an amok driver comes from Germany instead of the Middle East, the scope of report quickly halves. And further heat the distortions of the PKS.
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