An article on Germany's new crime statistics today states that knife attacks and criminality in children and young people are on the rise:
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Berlin. The chairman of the police union, Jochen Kopelke, has warned of increasing knife attacks in view of the new police crime statistics (PKS). "The rising number of knife attacks is sufficient evidence that this means of crime is increasingly becoming a problem, despite all the statistical inaccuracies of the PKS," he told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). "Our colleagues must be prepared to always and constantly be threatened or directly attacked with a knife." That, he said, is extremely dangerous.
Kopelke stressed, "We need to do a much better job of clarifying and understanding the time before attacks and the causes of knife attacks. The goal must be to prevent knives from being used in the first place." In any case, he said, it would be promising to visibly increase the presence of the authorities responsible for security in all areas accessible to the public. This included trains and public transport. According to PKS, 8160 knife attacks were registered in 2022 - 15.4 percent more than in the previous year.
Number of assaults on police officers rises again
The police unionist went on to say that the number of assaults on police officers, which has now risen again by more than 11 percent, is also "very worrying". Every day, an average of about 94 of them would become victims of a physical attack. "That leaves me speechless," he said. Intensive consideration finally demanded that children and young people were increasingly suspected of crimes, he said. Here, police officers experience "more and more often a considerable lack of respect, adherence to rules and insight into having done something wrong."
(Translated with deepl.com)
Link to the German article:
https://www.rnd.de/politik/gefahr-d...-praesentiert-K52QZAZ43JBZRIRATQEQW3XYLQ.html
The problem is international in Western countries.
