On New Year’s Night (known in Germany as Silvester) the Berlin police had a tough go of it. They arrested close to 700 people, mostly for arson, attacks on police officers, destruction of property, and explosive device violations. The police recorded a total of 1,453 crimes—8.6 percent more than during last year’s celebrations. It appears, however, that all of these suspects have been promptly freed, and it is not known how many of them will eventually appear in courts.

Particularly serious incidents occurred in Gropiusstadt, a heavily immigrant-inhabited area of Berlin’s borough of Neukölln. A “ball bomb” badly damaged a police car at around 8 p.m. Three hours later, nine people were arrested nearby for making 11 Molotov cocktails. In the inner-city area of Moabit, a man threw one such device onto the street in front of a bus. When the vehicle swerved, the suspect threw another and destroyed the middle door of the bus.

Attacks on officers also occurred in other parts of Germany. In the Lower Saxony town of Laatzen, some 40 people attacked a fire brigade vehicle with iron bars and stones. The officers, who had been called to put out a fire, aborted that operation and called the police for support. “Our colleagues were apparently lured into a trap,” said the city head of security Sebastian Osterwald.

In the North Rhine-Westphalian towns of Duisburg and Solingen, “youngsters” repeatedly threw rockets and fireworks at police officers. In Solingen, a group of 30-40 people prevented the fire brigade from extinguishing a fire by throwing stones and fireworks.

A week later, the Berlin police launched an internal investigation of its members who are suspected of passing to the media the list of the first names of suspects arrested on New Year’s Eve. The officers, as we now know, arrested 670 people. Of that number, 264 have foreign citizenship (39.4 percent) and 406 German citizenship (60.6 percent).

The list of the names of those suspects, first published on Jan. 6, clearly indicates their true background, however. One name, Mohammed, appears 12 times; Yussuf six times; and Hassan three times. More interestingly still, the list of the “German” suspects begins with Abdul Kerim, Abdulhamid, Abdulkadir, Abdul Karim, and Abdullah.

Berlin police spokesman Florian Nath reacted furiously to the leak. It is unacceptable, he declared, that “apparently illegal lists of names of suspects” had been made public. This was not only a violation of data protection, but an act which also fueled a “disproportionate and discriminatory explanation for individual criminal behavior.”

It was professionally questionable, Nath went on indignantly, to use criteria such as cultural, ethnic, or religious origin, or “affiliation to supposedly ‘non-German’ realities,” as an explanation for any crimes. It was “highly problematic to derive the motivation for crimes” in this way, he added, and the police reject such practices: “We have clear legal and ethical guidelines as a neutral guarantor of public safety and protectors of the basic rights of all citizens.”

The officers who leaked the list can now expect severe consequences. The Department for Police and Corruption Offenses of the State Criminal Police Office is taking over the investigation.

But to summarize the leaked material: There are 256 “German” offenders with a migration background, overwhelmingly naturalized Muslims, and 264 foreign offenders, as opposed to 150 (apparent) locals. The police officers who revealed this data deserve medals and promotions, rather than the looming witch hunt facing them, which is likely to lead to their dismissal and perhaps criminal prosecution. It is reasonable to assume that the figures revealed by the lists they provided apply to many categories of crimes, not just in Berlin but all over Germany.

Thanks to those officers, and to many other Germans who are growing sick and tired of the insane “clear legal and ethical guidelines,” it is getting harder for the ruling establishment to sweep ever more dirt under the carpet of secrecy. The filth accumulated over the past quarter-century is oozing out from under it.

Herr Nath’s complaint that the lists fueled “disproportionate and discriminatory explanation for individual criminal behavior” is absurd. The lists merely confirm the fact well known, not just to Germans but to all Europeans who have not lost their minds, that young Muslim men are more likely by some orders of magnitude to commit crimes—all sorts of crimes, including rape and terrorist attacks—than the majority native population, or even non-Muslim immigrants. There is absolutely nothing “disproportionate and discriminatory” in stating this fact.

The refusal of the German police to use cultural, ethnic or religious origin, or “affiliation to supposedly ‘non-German’ realities” when investigating crimes guarantees that the crime rate will remain high, and that all official “explanations” for them will continue to be outright fraudulent. If it is “highly problematic to derive the motivation for crimes” from the perpetrator’s Muslim name, if “the police reject such practices” (which is mandated by “clear legal and ethical guidelines”), and if this is done in the name “of the basic rights of all citizens,” then the reasons for terrorist attacks will continue to baffle the German state and its subsidiary organs.

While the German state cracks down assiduously on anyone who violates the privacy of Muslim criminals, no police action is taken when the media blatantly names and shames Germans who violate the mores of the mainstream. For instance, last June the newspaper Bild published the full name and photo of a young woman who was singing a racist anti-immigration song outside a nightclub in the North Sea island resort Sylt, even going so far and to stigmatize her as a “Nazi.”

The police remained silent even though the magazine blatantly violated  German personal data protection laws to shame the woman publicly. There has been no internal investigation by the paper, or its publisher, let alone by the Schleswig-Holstein state prosecutor’s service.

Freedom of opinion exists in Germany for all who hold the officially approved type of opinion. Revealing that the overwhelming majority of criminals in a night of excess happened to be Muslim is conducive to the wrong kind of opinion, and therefore that information must be suppressed. Fighting “racism and discrimination”—as defined by the ruling bien pensant class—is not just a major concern for the German police authorities, it is the priority. That much has been reconfirmed for the umpteenth time in the first week of the new year. Today they call it “Coordination.” Ninety years ago, it was known as Gleichschaltung.

That priority comes far ahead of the task of putting members of violent mobs behind bars, regardless of their race, gender, religion, or ethnicity.