Enough is enough? Dublin north inner city crime

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877584#Comment_120877584

Nope but in my experience unfortunately they generally don't.

It's a horrible job and I couldn't do it personally, but the majority of my limited interactions have been poor, indifferent bordering on incompetent in some cases.

tom1ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877605#Comment_120877605

Yeah I’d hate the job myself- they seem to get no help from anyone but buckets of abuse thrown at them.

why would you want that stress?!

bartkingcole

During Covid I had a Garda on Henry Street search my bag to check that I really had shopping even though I was within 2km of my home. I know of people having Guards call to their homes to check they were isolating after travel. We had detention centres for our own citizens.

Yet this is a real emergency - one that we have been watching getting worse and worse day after day. That poor woman getting stabbed in the IFSC, daily attacks and intimidation of people and this being another incident. The Government has to do something. It is not acceptable, they always find someone else is to blame, and they get obsessed with a woke agenda which is not helping the vast majority of citizens.

emigration seems attractive even though we have full employment.

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120875029#Comment_120875029

How come there’s never any talk of building a new jail? The jails are full.

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877617#Comment_120877617

I know what you mean, but if you behave in a polite and decent manner to someone you expect them to reciprocate. My worst interaction with them was after a hugely traumatic event, they behaved appallingly, the lack of effort after was upsetting. I wish I had gone to the press tbh or at least ombudsman.

I wouldn't but they aren't being forced to join against their will.

bartkingcole

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877641#Comment_120877641

Just one?

lawrencesummers

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877591#Comment_120877591

There is a lot more to gardas work than just arrests, its more patrols, more feet on the street, more visibility and more work done.

Sure the judiciary is a problem and the solution is multifaceted buts its not just black and white

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877598#Comment_120877598

I see tourists walking to that hostel on Merchants Quay on my bus home, I really fear for them.

Northernlily

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877598#Comment_120877598

They should never admit to that. They should use the huge budget surplus to good effect and deal with the issue at hand.

Put Thornton Hall or similar prison back on the table. Add policing resources and stations to the city. More equipment, better cars. Get methadone clinics away from that part of town.

Cleary's will be open in the Autumn which will hopefully bring some vibrancy back to the area and have a knock on effect.

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877529#Comment_120877529

No one arrested for that either? And it happened right in the middle of the city.

Galwayguy35

Green Party councillor talking on VM1 about this saying instead of more Gardai on the streets people need to be given something to do so they won't be bored.

Only one place the dirtbags who did this should be sent and thats to prison.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877663#Comment_120877663

Is that 'Four Courts Hostel' right beside the River Bank Centre?

That part of the quays is an absolute nightmare, I can't believe anyone would be staying in a hostel there. Really feel sorry for them.

I cycle by there daily and a couple of weeks ago there were about 10 junkies flighting, saw one lad get a belt in the head with a crutch - a couple of them rolling around in the middle of the road that I had to swerve to avoid.

Family of three fairly well dressed tourists with a kid of about 9 or 10 in absolute shock trying to get passed them. Can't even imagine what they must have thought they'd gotten themselves into.

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877676#Comment_120877676

They've nuthin to do

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877676#Comment_120877676

Fecking internet with the world at their fingertips, instant communication with anyone they want on their phones, streaming services with all the films they could ever dream of, consoles with thousands upon thousands of hours of games to explore, internet gaming, all the porn in the world... nothing to do though.

Christ, I'd like to see them try to survive in the 90s.

Northernlily

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877676#Comment_120877676

Let me guess he's not from the area?

Kermit.de.frog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877719#Comment_120877719

I'm feeling bored maybe I'll go out and smash someone's head in

How can these people be so f**king stupid? They are part of the problem. Completely detached from reality.

With all these people you just know if they were a victim of a hiding their attitude would change so fast

Northernlily

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877641#Comment_120877641

Yep it's a joke. I would think it's legal lobbyists blocking progress in the corridors of power.

Petty crime, lots of convictions and a revolving courtroom door is great for business.

I.E a transfer of taxpayer funds via the legal aid systems.

bingobango12

Back home from a few work drinks outside a well known nice south side city centre pub tonight. Countless homeless looking for change, cigarettes etc. every 5 minutes. Numerous groups of young lads walking around waiting for anybody to look back and cause trouble.

Born and bred in Dublin 33 years now but the city centre has turned into a total unsafe dump. City has been completely neglected by government/sentencing, and a completely lost battle against junkies.

Stephen_Maturin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877676#Comment_120877676

Ah tbf dey don’t have de faciliteez, the brutal violence is excusable

John_Rambo

These threads are actually effective. There's "work from home" media/journalist eyes on them, the last one about O'Connell st. had a big, albeit short lived Garda presence and crackdown on the street. In fact there was direct quotes from boardsies on main stream media masquarading as original thought.

Sugar_Rush

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877155#Comment_120877155

The minister for justice is not responsible for every crime that happens in the state.

She is precisely responsible for the situation we've deteriorated to.

Her and her predecessors.

Her position is to outline policy to manage this mess.

She insists on ignoring it and focusing on some ethereal meaningless nonsense.

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877734#Comment_120877734

You never, ever hear them use the word ‘ parenting’.

Also, there are thousands of dirt poor immigrants living in the same Dublin 1 environment and you don’t see their kids causing this trouble.

tom1ie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877658#Comment_120877658

Agreed but the judiciary are the main problem.

The lack of guards is a problem also but the judiciary actually stopping this constant re releasing of violent repeat offenders is the big issue.

Montage of Feck

If there had been a Gardai on the scene who intervened he would probably be now facing investigation by GSOC.

Northernlily

I remember I had my phone robbed out of my hand at the bus stop outside Supermacs on Westmoreland street in 2014. I was attending night college 3 nights a week at the time after work so my days were long. It was about 10pm or so.

The guy walked by me first and then came full sprint back from Londis on the corner and swooped the phone out of my hand. He probably thought it would be light work as I had a suit on and laptop bag with my laptop and college materials.

I was playing GAA at the time at a decent level so was fit. The guy literally swooped the phone and ran across the road down by the Westin/Bowes and I gave chase. As I was gaining on him halfway down Dolier I was shouting "if I catch you your going in the liffey you rat" and he ended up firing the phone back at me and I had to turn and get it. He stopped a bit further down and was completely gassed out on his hunkers.

The guards picked him up shortly after. They rang me a few weeks later and told me he was being jailed the next day for some crimes and he was on spree before he went away for a few months. He'd done loads of phones that night.

There has been vermin around for 10/15 years now. Nothing has changed a bit.

Northernlily

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877751#Comment_120877751

Agree with this, when the PAC Committee meetings were on a few weeks back over RTE, questions and commentary from boards was finding its way into the live arena.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877810#Comment_120877810

Yep. Almost word for word. The Sindo often quotes boardsies verbatim and politicians will quote boardsies concerns disguised as constituents concerns when they have "feet on the ground".

I worked in the advertising industry and the motors forum in boards.ie was scrutinised by agencies in the early naughties. Particularly the agency handling Skoda. LOTS of valuable info harvesting.

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877641#Comment_120877641

They can't sell them to the prospective inhabitants as self contained, full board, room with a view, amenities on site apartments. It costs them us money. They can't do a rental scheme either as each occupants stretch varies, sometimes they can checkout early for good behaviour. Maybe if they had a revolving door at the lobby, that could help. These people are big fans of revolving doors and use them all the time.

downtheroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877734#Comment_120877734

Should have built the white water rafting facility for the junkees

Mike Murdock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877676#Comment_120877676

The old "Faciliteeeeeeeeeeeeeeees" canard rears it's cliched head again.