Gardaí to crack down on teens carrying out assaults in Dublin and posting videos to TikTok

There is pretty much no deterrent so this be what happens…

And how much is this going to cost? You could pay a carpenter a few hundred to knock up a guillotine, sharpen up the blade and set it up in the town center; keep the heads rolling. You could transport it from town to town. Why don't people just listen to me? I could fix crime in two weeks if they'd just listen.

It's absolutely ridiculous when serious issues like this can't be properly discussed because of fear that someone might get offended

Did you read the OP at all Chocolate Ice? The youths in this case doing the attacks and posting to tiktok were from Cabra and Broombridge. Any excuse to post some weird Gemma O Doherty type of website link though eh

You clearly know nothing about the Cabra/Broombridge area.

Wow, a leaflet drop, that'll teach them.

They said on the radio that some of them were hanging around outside a shop in the area last night.

Among the weapons carried was a hammer, a baseball bat and some sort of big stick.

It's not exactly cutting edge policing to disrupt this carry on.

Unfortunately the ages of the individuals and the "political" dimension is probably very much in the mind of AGS leadership in their responses here

No-one wants a repeat of what happened in Blanch SC and surrounds not too long ago!

not cutting edge but where there is little effort and endeavour will you get little result.

not from rank and file per say but politicians and Garda management alike.

arrest, trial, convict and sentence… appropriately.

Age of criminal responsibility should be lowered to 16 for violent crime - I don’t give a **** who you are or how “difficult” your upbringing was, even 5 year olds know violence is wrong.

We are actually so lenient on these scum it is shocking. The idea that the little rodent that fatally stabbed Urantsetseg Tserendorj in the neck while she walked home from work will just get away with it ultimately because he’s too young makes me sick.

The little prick knew what he was doing was wrong. If he’s doing that at 15 he’s already too far gone - lock him up and throw away the key. It’s only going to end in another litany of crimes and innocent lives and families destroyed while he jumps from suspended sentence to suspended sentence.

Wrong terminology on my part apologies.

My point still stands - shouldn’t be any of this anonymity non custodial sentence BS. The above crime should be a life sentence - into Oberstown till 17 and then into the prison service thereafter.

How much time will the lad in question above actually do? Probably very little. And the scums on the streets know it too. There’s something seriously wrong with that.

One of the gang went to a Centra in Blanch, attacked staff, went home, threatened family and tried to decapitate a Guard before he was put down.

no need for that really...

It says everything you need to know about Danzy and his hangers on.

Unless scumbags start waving Free Tibet flags our Chinese friends won't take their videos down.

Beating the sh1t out of someone for laughs and uploading it isn't 'unsophisticated', it's acting like a scumbag.

'You can also bet that their parents wouldn't be long in making sure they behaved'

No, some parents are deadbeats, as sh1tty as their spawn.

at the end of the day there only kids themselves, there's no facilities and nothing to do no wonder they end up board and rest less and find themselves getting into difficulty. on top of that a lot of kids are devloping addiction issues and mental health, loads of kids have mental health since covid started. the government has to do more for kids in deprived areas give them somewhere they can go to chill out.