It's the same for most towns, here. The entire country had 214 murders, in 2023. Baltimore alone, had more.
Mass immigration added about 100/year more, for a few years, but now the rate is lower than before the borders opened.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045508/number-of-murders-in-germany/
The figures appear too low to me
That's murder. All homicide, to the widest definition, (Tötungsdelikte) was 2858 in 2023, including things like car accidents, shaking babies, and late abortions.
That's harder to directly compare, internationally, as the categories and laws don't align. A lot of American abortions would be prosecuted as homicide, in Germany, and would be in the 20k+ range.
They appear too low because our feeling of safety has declined faster than the numbers rose. It is simply much worse, when a guest kills you, than when a local kills, you. It adds insult to injury because they are ostensibly here, to seek safety.
Also, foreign criminalism has replaced native criminalism, which has been declining due to the aging population.
What has nearly doubled, is rape and sexual assault. That's the big one. But it's still more than twice as high, in the USA.
That's a drastic reduction since the peak in the 1940's.
This doesn't address my point.
