I’ll tell you a story that happened in a... well, not very good district of a German 300k people city. A district with 44% migrants, and 42% unemployed, and some of the highest crime rates of Germany.<p>I was 18, it was the day after I finished my final high school exams, I had partied with a few girls, most went home, 2 of us – me and a friend – were trying to find a place to drink something. We ended up at some gas station, as all other stores were closed, and tried to buy alcohol.<p>Some people were standing there, too, waiting in a queue, some of them migrants, some obviously homeless, some kinda nice dressed.<p>A friend of mine tried to pay with her EC card, and was too drunk to use it or enter her PIN – so she asked if someone of the other crowd would be able to help her (I, myself, was also quite drunk). So she gave this guy her wallet, told him to &quot;take out the yellow EC card, PIN is 2814&quot;[1], and indeed, he did this.<p>They – also wanting to buy alcohol – asked us if we wanted to follow them to a nearby party. We did, and ended up having a fun night playing singstar with them.<p><pre><code>    --------------------------------
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In Conclusion:<p>It’s not ethnicity, or social class, or homogenity that leads or prevents crime.<p>We’ve done similar things not once, but several times. And you know what? Never was anything stolen.<p>Once I forgot a jacket, and couldn’t remember where anymore – next morning someone had posted the jacket onto a facebook group of the city with 60k users and I was able to get it back.<p><pre><code>    --------------------------------
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[1]: PIN changed for obvious reasons