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Traffic and Corruption.

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  • #2
    Vic_08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    Flyboy!!! wrote: »

    Unfortunately I couldn't find Ireland on Transparency International.

    http://www.transparency.org/


    16th from the top out of 180 countries in perception of corruption tables.


  • #3
    NewDubliner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭NewDubliner


    Flyboy!!! wrote: »
    Food for thought.
    Indeed, what's the driving like near the IFSC?


  • #4
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,047 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Interesting theory. Although the problem in Ireland doesn't seem to be that the traffic corps take bribes, it's that they can't be arsed enforcing the law whatsoever!


  • #5
    Flyboy!!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Flyboy!!!


    Stark wrote: »
    Interesting theory. Although the problem in Ireland doesn't seem to be that the traffic corps take bribes, it's that they can't be arsed enforcing the law whatsoever!

    It's not just concerned with traffic cops which would be petty corruption but also the Ray Burkes and CJ Haughies, major corruption, and how everything down from a corrupt government's willingness to bend the rules translates to people bending the rules of the road and ultimately results in fatalities.

    Besides, there are plenty of laws which shouldn't be inforced. If at four in the morning you skip a red light on a roundabout, should the cops waste their time prosecuting you over it? Chief Superintendent John O'Brien, the head of the Garda Traffic Bureau at the time, pretty much said they wouldn't be wasting their time with stupid or unenforceable laws on his watch but then had his career promptly sh*tcanned for spelling out the truth we're not suposed to hear.


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