Overview
- Joachim Herrmann highlighted new rankings from the 2025 Police Crime Statistics that place Fürth and Erlangen as the safest large cities.
- Among cities with more than 200,000 residents, Munich ranks first, Augsburg second, and Nuremberg fifth in the same comparison.
- The federal Police Crime Statistics, Germany’s official count of recorded offenses, show overall crime down 5.6 percent and violent crime down 2.3 percent.
- Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt links part of the drop to partial cannabis legalization and cites a 4.7 percent decline after adjusting for that change.
- Herrmann calls 2025 Bavaria’s best security situation since 1978, excluding the pandemic year 2021.