The city states of Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen were the states with the three highest crime rates in Germany in 2024, while the federal state of Bavaria had the lowest. Urban areas generally have higher crime rates than rural ones, making it difficult to compare Germany's three city states with the much larger federal states, which typically cover quite large areas. The federal state with the highest crime rate was Bremen at 14,998 crimes per 100 thousand people, compared with the German average of 6,995.

In 2024, around 7,060 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants were recorded by the police in Germany. This means that the so-called frequency rate or crime rate rose for the third year in a row, but due to a change in the basis for calculation, it is only comparable with previous years to a limited extent.* The years between 2010 and 2015 saw an increase in the crime rate, but after 2015, the recent trend of declining crime started, leading to the generally low figures seen in the most recent years. While the uptick in the crime rate in 2022 marks a negative turn compared with these years, the overall crime rate is still much lower on average than in previous decades. Crime rate highest in cities Germany’s sixteen states are made up of thirteen federal states, and three city states; Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. These three city states had the highest regional crime rates in Germany, due to only covering urban areas which usually have higher crime rates than rural areas. The large federal state of Bavaria, in the southeast of Germany, had the lowest crime rate in the country at 4,698 crimes per 100,000 people in 2020. Baden-Württemberg, home to the black forest and the city of Stuttgart had the second-lowest crime rate per 100 thousand people in this year, at 4,944.

Between 2016 and 2021, the number of crimes per 100,000 inhabitants were on a downward trend reaching its lowest level in 2021, although this was likely due to the lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, crime rates have risen again. In 2023, the police recorded roughly **** criminal offenses per 100,000 inhabitants. Youth criminal suspects Since the number of crimes is increasing, so is the number of suspects. Concerningly, the number of juvenile suspects has seen a rather significant increase and is currently at its ************ since 2016. Suspects who are considered in the juvenile category are aged 14 to 17 years old. In Germany, children under the age of 14 cannot be prosecuted and if they commit a crime, then social services usually step in to try and help. In general, punishments for those convicted are much more lenient as it is often considered that due to their age, they may not have been aware of the repercussions of their actions. For example, regardless of the crime committed, no child under the age of 18 can be tried as an adult. In contrast, in England and Wales, there were around ***** people aged between 15 and 20 in prison. Crimes solving rate With a higher crime rate, it is also important to consider how many crimes are solved. Once a crime is solved, the hope is that the victim can get some type of closure and answers, and also that the perpetrator faces justice for the crimes they committed. In 2023, the police solved around **** million crimes in Germany and for the past three years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of crimes solved. Some cases are, of course, easier to solve than others. Crimes of arson and other fire-hazard-related crimes had a comparably low clearance rate at around ** percent. In contrast, drug-related offenses were much more frequently solved. Even though 2023 saw the lowest clearance rate in 20 years, it was still at ** percent.

The data set describes bicycle thefts and cellar/floor burglaries known to the police with a bicycle as the property obtained in Berlin/Germany

Context

Based on the Berlin police crime statistics (data warehouse management information), daily updated data on bicycle theft crimes is made available at the planning area level. This includes the data for the current year up to the day before the update as well as the data for the entire previous year, provided the time of the offense (for offense periods) can be narrowed down to a maximum of three days.

Acknowledgements

OpenData Berlin https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetze/fahrraddiebstahl-berlin CC BY 4.0

Context

Berlin is a special city, multicultural city. And the crime image is special there.

Content

For example there are no bloody drug wars, ghetto or neighborhoods where police afraid to get. Crimes like "deprivation of liberty" and "treat" are in one column. But "larceny" - separated to 4 categories: theft of bikes, of auto, from auto (sic!) and rest kind of theft. Particular column for "Damage to property due graffiti" (Sach-beschädigung durch Graffiti (sic!). Numbers of crimes are connected with every single neighborhood of Berlin's part. Statistics covering period of 2012 - 2019 years.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks for assistance in translation to Alexei Klaus and Benjamin Proksch, Germany.

Inspiration

Questions to community: 1) what part of Berlin is most dangerous? 2) what crimes are growing? 3) what crimes are going low? 4) would be great to build Folium based heatmap.

In 2023, German police registered around 214,100 cases of violent crime, which was a large increase compared with the year before. During the specified period, figures peaked in 2007. Violent crimes are characterized by the use of force or even weapons on a victim.

In 2023, police in Germany solved 92.3 percent of murder cases. The clearance rate for murder cases during the specified time period remained high.

The number of criminal offenses recorded in Germany fluctuated during the specified period. In 2023, around 5.94 million crimes were registered, compared to 6.33 million in 2015. The data are based on police criminal statistics, which are compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt). The statistics include all criminal offenses known to the police, as well as attempts to commit a crime. Not included are minor breaches of the law, crimes against the state and traffic offenses.

Among all criminal offenses recorded in Germany in 2023, simple theft had the highest share at 19.7 percent. Fraud and aggravated theft rounded up the top three.

In 2023, there were 299 murder victims in Germany. This was an increase compared to the previous year, with 264 victims. The data only includes completed criminal acts.

Since 2015, far right parties drawing heavily on radical anti-refugee rhetoric gained electoral support in Germany while the number of political hate crimes targeting refugees rose. Both phenomena – far right electoral support and prevalence of right-wing hate crimes – have theoretically and empirically been linked with socio-structural and contextual variables. However, systematic empirical research on these links is scattered and scarce at best. We combine official statistics on political hate crimes targeting refugees in Germany and far right electoral support of the far right party “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD) in the German national elections 2017 with socio-structural variables (proportion of foreigners and unemployment rate) and survey data collected in a representative survey (N = 1,506) in 2016. We aggregate and combine data for all German municipalities except Berlin which were the level of analysis for the current study. In path analyses, we find socio-structural variables to be unrelated with each other but significantly correlated with both criterion variables in a systematic fashion: proportion of foreigners was negatively while unemployment rate was positively linked with far right electoral support. Right-wing crime was linked positively with unemployment rate across Germany and positively with proportion of foreigners only in East Germany while proportion of foreigners was unrelated to right-wing crime in West Germany. When including survey measures into the model, they were linked with socio-structural variables in the predicted fashion – intergroup contact correlated positively with proportion of foreigners, collective deprivation correlated positively with unemployment rates, and both predicted extreme right-wing attitudes. However, their contribution to the explained variance in outcome variables above and beyond socio-structural variables was neglectable. We argue that both far right-wing electoral support and right-wing hate crime can be conceptualized as behavioral forms of political extremism shaped through socio-structural and contextual factors and discuss implications for preventing political extremism.

The share of non-German crime suspects in Germany was 41.1 percent in 2023. This was an increase compared to the previous year. Figures fluctuated during the specified time period, peaking in 2023.

In 2023, police in Germany solved almost 81 percent of aggravated assault cases. The percentage was almost unchanged compared to the previous year. The clearance rate during the specified time period remained high, within 80 to 84 percent.

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In 2023, there were 214 murders in Germany, and 490 attempted murders resulting in 704 murder cases in that year, compared with 662 cases in the previous year. Between 2000 and 2012, there was a net decrease of 300 murder cases a year in Germany, but in recent years that trend has been reversed, with 2018 showing the largest year-on-year increase in this time period.

Gegenstand der Studie Gegenstand der seit dem Jahre 1882 bestehenden Kriminalstatistik des Deutschen Reichs sind die vor deutschen ordentlichen Gerichten durch rechtskräftige richterliche Entscheidungen erledigten Strafsachen wegen Verbrechen und Vergehen gegen Reichsgesetze. Die Kriminalstatistik umfasst die wichtigen, vor deutschen Behörden verhandelten Straffälle. Gezählt werden die Entscheidungen der ordentlichen Gerichte einschl. der Konsulargerichte. Ab 1921 werden auch die Aburteilungen der Militärpersonen, die seit der Aufhebung der Militärgerichtsbarkeit im Jahre 1920 durch die ordentlichen Gerichte erfolgen, in der allgemeinen Kriminalstatistik mitgezählt. Bis zum Jahre 1919 wurde die Kriminalstatistik für das Deutsche Heer und die Marine gesondert geführt. Sie wurde zuletzt veröffentlicht in: ‚Vierteljahrshefte der Statistik des Deutschen Reichs‘ Herausgegeben vom Statistischen Reichsamt, 29. Jahrgang, Viertes Heft, S. 132. In der vorliegenden Reichskriminalstatistik werden die durch rechtskräftige richterliche Entscheidung getroffenen Urteile und verhängten Strafen erfasst. Es scheiden also die Fälle aus, bei denen zwar ein Vorverfahren oder eine Voruntersuchung stattgefunden hat, das Hauptverfahren aber nicht eröffnet worden ist. Außerdem bleiben die infolge einer Wiederaufnahme des Verfahrens ergangenen Entscheidungen unberücksichtigt. Auch Fälle der Zuwiderhandlungen gegen die Vorschriften über die Erhebung öffentlicher Abgaben sind nicht in der vorliegenden Statistik enthalten. Ferner bleiben Verbrechen und Vergehen gegen Landesgesetze, insbesondere jene mit fischerei-, jagd-, forst- und feldpolizeilichen Charakters, außer Betracht. Für die Bewertung der kriminalistischen Ergebnisse ist folgendes von besonderer Bedeutung: Am 4. Januar 1924 wurde durch §45 der Verordnung über Gerichtsverfassung und Strafrechtspflege das Ruhen der Privatklagen bis 31. März 1924 angeordnet.Weiterhin ist der früher vorgeschriebene Verfolgungs- und Anklagezwang sowohl für Übertretungen als auch für leichtere Fälle von Vergehen durch das sogenannte Opportunitätsprinzip ersetzt worden. Dagegen erhöht der §374 der Strafprozeßordnung die Zahl der Delikte deutlich, die im Wege der Privatklage verfolgt werden können. Das Jugendgerichtsgesetzt vom 16. Februar 1923 hat eine besonders deutliche Auswirkung auf die Kriminalstatistik. Die Strafmündigkeit wird von dem vollendeten 12. Lebensjahr auf das vollendete 14. Lebensjahr heraufgesetzt. Weiterhin sollen keine Strafen verhängt werden, falls Erziehungsmaßnahmen ausreichen. Bei Vergehen und Übertretungen in besonders leichten Fällen soll von Strafe abgesehen werden. §32 gibt der Staatsanwaltschaft die Ermächtigung, mit Zustimmung des Jugendrichters beim Vorliegen bestimmter Voraussetzungen von der Erhebung der Klage abzusehen. Das Gesetz über beschränkte Auskunft aus dem Strafregister und die Tilgung von Strafvermerken von 1920 erschwert die statistische Erfassung der Vorstrafen. Außerdem muß beachtet werden, dass ab 1924 verschiedene Geldstrafengesetze in der Verordnung über Vermögensstrafen und Bußen zusammengefasst wurden. Methodischer Hinweis:Für die Zeit von 1882 bis 1928 konnten die Werte aus zusammengestellten Übersichtstabellen der Kriminalitätsstatistik:Reichsjustizministerium und Statistisches Reichsamt: Kriminalstatistik für das Jahr 1928. Verlag von Reimar Hobbing, Berlin, 1931. S. 65 ff. entnommen werden. Ab 1929 mussten die Werte für die einzelnen Jahre aus folgenden Bänden der Statistik des Deutschen Reichs erhoben werden: Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Bände 398, 429, 433, 448, 478, 507 und 577.Um die gleiche Untergliederung wie in den veröffentlichten Tabellen der Kriminalitätsstatistik für das Jahr 1928, Berlin 1931, zu erhalten, wurden die einzelnen Straftatbestände nach dem "Abgekürzten Verzeichnis der von der Kriminalitätsstatistik erfaßten strafbaren Handlungen gegen Reichsgesetze nach dem Stande am Ende des Jahres 1934", publiziert in der Statistik des Deutschen Reichs, Band 507, S. 119 ff., zusammengefasst. Das musste für die Jahre 1929 bis 1936 durchgeführt werden.

In 2023, the German police had recorded around 161,000 young adult crime suspects. This was an increase compared to the previous year, at 171,400 thousand suspects.

In 2023, police in Germany solved 90.2 percent of malicious injury cases. The clearance rate during the specified time period remained high, within 89 to 91 percent.

In 2023, police in Germany solved almost 91 percent of drug-related offenses. Figures have remained fairly stable over the last decade but have decreased slightly.

In 2023, the German police had recorded around 234,581 young adult crime suspects. This was an increase compared to the previous year, at 221,330 suspects.