UK homicide rate: 1.20 per 100,000

German homicide rate: 1.18 per 100,000

US homicide rate: 5.35 per 100,000

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Reason for the low convition rate [3]. The cameras were too bad:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/koeln-silvester-justiz-101....

Perpetrators could hardly be identified

In Cologne, the charges resulted in preliminary proceedings against 290 suspects and to date in 43 indictments against a total of 52 defendants; in addition, six orders of summary punishment were issued. According to the local court, six of the cases are still pending. But most of the proceedings deal with accusations such as theft, robbery or receiving stolen goods. The allegation of sexual coercion was made in only three proceedings against a total of six accused persons.

The biggest difficulty for the investigators: Many of the suspected perpetrators of sexual assaults from New Year's Eve could only be identified with difficulty afterwards. The investigators evaluated more than 1000 hours of image material, for example from surveillance cameras. However, in most cases it was not possible to identify individual persons.

To cite Benefits Street to say the whole of Europe is like that is like concluding the whole of the US is a shithole by looking at 1 street in Alabama where most of the residents are opioid-addicts , or that it's a Somalia-like warzone after looking at Chicago's south side...

What misinformation. Germany just had the fewest crimes in 2018 since 1992, and generally has much fewer violent crime than the US.

Some actual sources which are not from a far-right 'think tank':

Crime statistic summary (english): https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/downloads/EN/publikatione...

Crime statistic full (german): https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/downloads/DE/publikatione...

FAZ article (german): https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/kriminalstatistik...

German Knife Crimes Pandemic?

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/kriminalstatistik-125.html

"One of the safest countries in the world"

Interior Minister Seehofer expressed his satisfaction with the 2018 crime statistics, saying that the number of crimes had decreased by 3.6 percent. It is lower than it has been for decades, the minister said.

Note that the knife crime problem is in England and Wales not the entire UK and is pretty much due to a conscious decision by the then home secretary (now PM) to drastically reduce police numbers and change how they police.

Bold move, trying to critique Europe on violent crime statistics versus those of the US.

If I'm reading these statistics correctly the stabbing rate in Germany is now on par with the homocide rate in the US.

Of course not all stabbings are fatal.

Knives? We don't need such primitive tools in 'Murica: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010_homicide_suicid...