Murders and rapists have flooded the country with crime – according to Germany’s far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). Measuring perception of crime risks against real risk, Feltes discovered that public anxiety was 65 times higher than the real risk. SEE ALSO: What we learned from this year's crime statistics, and what we didn'tAre the statistics skewed? Crime statistics have other pitfalls that distorts the national picture. The number of television reports of criminal foreigners has quadrupled since 2014, yet the proportion of non-German suspects in crime statistics has increased by only one-third.

Source: The Local September 17, 2018 08:56 UTC