Berlin saw a very slight drop in crime last year compared to 2015, with a 0.1 percent decrease to 568,860 crimes committed overall. And this is still less than the amount reported 20 years ago during a spike in crime in the mid-1990s when the number of crimes reported reached nearly 600,000 per year. “Berlin is growing, but crime is not,” said Berlin interior minister Andreas Geisel during a presentation in city hall, according to Tagesspiegel. There was, however, an overall increase in assault, with around 5 percent more incidents recorded last year than in 2015. Politically motivated crimes highest in decadeThe number of politically motivated crimes rose by 8 percent over 2015, with 4,112 incidents reported.

Source: The Local March 13, 2017 16:41 UTC