When jobs are not available, narcotics and prostitution activities in the Black Market become attractive, he added. Migration visits for two or three days from the East European countries to the metropolitan areas of West European countries has also been responsible for the increase of crime. Economic conditions are still very poor in Eastern Europe and the opportunities in the West pull these people toward the West. Today's crimes are more sophisticated. Problems between ethnicities resulting in hate-violence crimes have rapidly increased in the 1990s in Germany.
Police feel they are being drawn more and more into social conflicts.
There is a high level of frustration among the police in dealing with these types of conflicts. Another product of the '90s is the focus of police on disorder problems, similar to what the public sees on the streets of North America. But they do worry about street crime. Germany has seen a dramatic increase in juvenile crime this decade, particularly relating to robbery, assault, and problems with gangs. Albrecht said that the number of offenses is not increasing, but the number of suspects is.