crime
Report: Fewer burglaries, more Internet crimes
A detective secures evidence after a burglary. Photo: Carsten Rehder/dpa
© dpa-infocom GmbH
According to a media report, the police crime statistics recorded another decline in burglaries in the second year of the pandemic. But Corona is causing an increase in another area.
According to a media report, the number of burglaries in the second year of the corona pandemic fell by 27.7 percent to 54,236 cases nationwide. This emerges from the police crime statistics for 2021, as reported by “Welt am Sonntag”.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) wants to present the statistics on Tuesday. The clearance rate for the break-ins was 19.5 percent. In 2020, too, the number of burglaries fell (minus 13.9 percent).
One reason for the decrease in cases: there were fewer opportunities because of Corona, because many people were at home and worked from there. In addition, gangs could not have moved through the country as usual, it was said. The police still attribute a large part of the unsolved burglaries to “traveling perpetrators”, the newspaper reported.
Cybercrime offenses increased by 12.1 percent. Many more people have been on the Internet. The dissemination, purchase and possession of child pornographic content on the Internet has increased drastically (plus 108.8 percent).
The number of attempted and completed burglaries had risen steadily from 2008 to 2015, reaching worrying levels. Eventually, it peaked at 167,136 cases registered nationwide. In 2016, there was a decline again for the first time.