A rumble in the djungle, eh sorry Charlottsville. Nominated for the World Press Award for Pictures.
A rumble in the djungle, eh sorry Charlottsville. Nominated for the World Press Award for Pictures.
I was just thinking, "God, our country is awfully quiet.
Haven't had a mass shooting for a few weeks."
The big news the last few weeks have been the stock market & the Super Bowl.
Then this, in Florida.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36882445
Germany's migrant crisis: Refugees committed more than 200,000 crimes last year
REFUGEES in Germany committed 92,000 more offences in the country last year than in 2014, according to official figures.
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Officials also warned of a 'growing trend' of terror suspects mingling with genuine refugeesThe leaked report comes just weeks after New Year's Eve sex attacks in the country, which has taken in more than one million people during the current migrant crisis.
Officials also warned of a "growing trend" of terror suspects mingling with genuine refugees.
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This is the third "crime in the context of immigration" report of the Federal Criminal Office (BKA) - which is classified for police and civil servants eyes only - but was leaked to best selling newspaper Bild.
It covers crimes by immigrants from January to December last year, a time when hundreds of thousands of migrants poured into Germany.
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The report covers crimes by immigrants from January to December last yearThe data comes from 13 of the 16 states which make up the Federal Republic.
Eighteen percent of the crimes commited by migrants were assaults and robberies - with less than one percent sex crimes.The number of crimes by immigrants rose in comparison over 2014 to 2015 by 79 percentThe number of criminal offences rose to 208,344 - 92 000 more than in the previous year. But the BKA states: "The vast majority of asylum seekers commit no crime."
The number of crimes by immigrants rose in comparison over 2014 to 2015 by 79 percent, the number of refugees increased at the same time by 440 percent.
Crime rose steadily in the first six months of the year but tapered of to become almost stagnant by the end of it, even though more refugees arrived in the second half.
The nature of the offences appears to be mostly minor: 28,712 cases of riding on public transport without paying the fare, 52,167 incidents of forging paperwork in a bid to get money, 85,035 cases of theft, mosty shoplifting - nearly double those of 2014.
Assaults, robberies and what Germany classes as "predatory extortion" and "offences against person freedom," including threatening behaviour, dooubled over 2014 with 36,010 cases, accounting for 18 percent of the crime total.
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The data comes from 13 of the 16 states which make up the Federal RepublicAnd sex crimes remain low, under one percent.
Logged last year were 1,688 cases of sexual offences, including against children, including 458 rapes or acts of "sexual coercion."
Hamburg, Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia, three states governed by centre-left SPD parliaments, did not deliver refughee criminal data to the BKA.
That means the events in Cologne on December 31, when hundreds of women were sexually molested or robbed by marauding gangs of immigrant men, are not included in these statistics.
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Eighteen percent of the crimes commited by migrants were assaults and robberiesThe report goes on to state that there were 240 attempted murders by immigrants - 127 in 2014 - and in two-thirds of all cases, perpetrators and victims were of the same nationality. One German was murdered, 27 immigrants were killed by other immigrants.
Syrians are officially listed as making up the bulk of asylum seekers - 48 percent - with them being suspected of 24 percent of the crime. Serbians account for two percent of refugees but are suspected of 13 percent of the total number of crimes.
Bild said: "Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis are the largest group of immigrants, but are less frequently delinquent in relation to other groups of migrants.
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"Proportionately more offenders were found among immigrants from the Balkans (Kosovo, Albania, Serbia), Eritrea and Nigeria."
As to terror suspects hiding among genuine refugees, the report stated that there were 266 instances individuals suspected of being "fighters and members of terrorist organizations abroad."
Eighty were ruled out, 186 cases are still being probed. The report called the infilration of militants into the country "a growing trend."
I kinda like you Herman, and I use to think it would be nice to sit, talk and have a nice German lager (or 3) together..
But sometimes lately it seems you tend to insult America and Americans...nothing is accomplished by this...
Such as your picture of a bald eagle eating carrion from a dumpster...
Most of us don't post pictures of Nazi concentration camps and the ovens which were used on the Jews back then..
Every country has its problems and its disgusting people, not only us...
schadenfreude?
i trust that's not it.
According to this news article,this is the 18th school shooting so far in America in 2018
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02...shootings-in-america-so-far-this-year/9449748
FACT CHECK: Have There Been 18 School Shootings In 2018?
Kush Desai | Contributor
Public officials and commentators claimed on Twitter that Wednesday’s high school shooting in Florida is the 18th school shooting of the year.
“Maybe, just maybe, after 18 school shootings in America in just 43 days of 2018 the Congress might want to consider common-sense gun safety legislation and save innocent lives,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted.
“There have been at least 18 school shootings since 2018 began,” tweeted New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey tweeted, “I pray for the families whose lives have been shattered by yet another school shooting –18th of 2018.”
Verdict: False
The commonly cited “18 school shootings” statistic counts suicides and accidental firearm discharges on school grounds as “school shootings.” The Florida incident is the first school mass shooting of 2018, according to FBI standards.
Fact Check:
Authorities reported that a gunman open fired on students and faculty at a Florida high school Wednesday. The suspected shooter was apprehended later that afternoon.
The shooting, which left at least 17 dead and many others injured, led to calls on social media and television for stricter gun control policies.
Many public figures claimed that the Wednesday incident is the 18th school shooting of 2018. The claims cited a database of school shootings that is maintained by Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control measures.
Everytown’s database includes any publicly known incident in which “a firearm discharges a live round inside a school building or on a school campus or grounds.”
This is a broad standard, and Everytown ends up grouping relatively minor incidents together with serious active shooter situations like what happened in Florida. Law enforcement officials apply a considerably more rigorous standard to distinguish an active shooter situation from less serious gun incidents.
Federal agencies like the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security define an active shooter as an “individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area,” such as a school or college campus. In previous analyses of active shooter situations, the FBI has accordingly excluded gun incidents that “appeared generally not to have put others in peril,” going on to list “the accidental discharge of a firearm in a school building or a person who chose to publicly commit suicide in a parking lot” as specific examples.
Many of the incidents that Everytown listed as school shootings fall under these exact two types of situations.
The very first school shooting of 2018 according to the database, for instance, is an incident involving a 31-year-old man shooting and killing himself in a Michigan elementary school parking lot. No teachers or students were harmed or even on the premise, as the school had closed back in June.
Another incident listed in Everytown’s database involved a third grade student at a Minnesota special needs school pulling the trigger of a school liaison officer’s holstered gun. The officer was sitting on a bench, distracted while talking to other children. The bullet hit the ground and no one was injured.
The database also includes a situation where a student at a Texas college accidentally fired a gun at an indoor target. The college’s criminal justice club’s adviser, a law enforcement officer, had left the room with the club’s training gun, mistaking it for his loaded gun. After he left, a student picked up and fired what she thought was the training gun at a target. No one was injured in the incident.
Everytown additionally considers one-off acts of crime involving guns as school shootings.
One example is an incident in which a Maryland high school student was shot in what appeared to have been an attempted robbery. The incident took place on school grounds after classes had ended for the day, although extracurricular activities were still ongoing on the other side of the school’s campus. The victim was admitted and shortly thereafter released from a hospital. Police charged two teens, who the victim knew, with attempted murder the next day.
None of these circumstances involved an active shooter situation. Some incidents listed by Everytown did, such as a January Kentucky high school shooting that left two dead and over a dozen others injured, but many simply involved a firearm being discharged on school property.
And even the Kentucky incident, the second worst school shooting of 2018, did not meet the FBI’s threshold of at least four deaths to be categorized as a “mass shooting.”
Loaded firearms are dangerous and can injure others, but accidental gunshots and public suicides are categorically different, as the FBI has noted, than Wednesday’s incident in which an individual with no clear motive consciously fired a semi-automatic assault rifle at crowds of students.
Everytown has long inflated its total by including incidents of gunfire that are not really school shootings. Take, for example, what it counts as the year’s first: On the afternoon of Jan. 3, a 31-year-old man who had parked outside a Michigan elementary school called police to say he was armed and suicidal. Several hours later, he killed himself. The school, however, had been closed for seven months. There were no teachers. There were no students.
The source of that stat is Everytown for Gun Safety...who's goal is to rid American's the right to bear arms.