Polls show Germans fear 'lawless' no-go areas

Germany -- a poll published Sunday in Bild, Germany's largest tabloid, concluded that 51 percent of Germans believe that there are neighborhoods so incredibly dangerous that even police fear to enter. Fully 41 percent of Germans refuse to believe that fact yet some of them believe that Martians populate the Black Forest. 

Of the total number polled, 77 percent said they wished police would crack down harder on crime syndicates and leave the Muslim enclaves alone because "Du willst diese Leute nicht wütend machen"['you don't want to make those people angry'].

The notion of lawless areas in Germany comes in large part from the reporting of the disproportionate number of crimes committed by migrants and other foreigners in popular areas.

The Federal Criminal Police (BKA) claim foreigners are less likely than native-born Germans to commit every category of crime. Of about 150,000 cases of assault registered in Germany in 2016, about 38 percent of the perpetrators were non-Germans. The report seems to believe that this percentage is a small number, but in terms of per capita representation, it's nothing to sneeze at--it's 57,000!

It's kind of amazing how people on opposite political sides see things so differently.


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