Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

lol what, get a bunch of andrew tates and alpha males out there? Ridiculous.

They should drop the requirement for 'facial recognition' tech.

I'd rather not have lawless communities that we fear to police, and the reality is that we won't see the things we want to see as long as we fear those scrambler funerals. And most importantly we need to stop seeing violent teenagers as misguided victims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_(law)

You can file this under "things that will never happen." But possibly off topic.

Short answer same as his plan to remove the block feature

Was in the city centre yesterday or as some of us feral Dubs call it "town" and I spent most of the day walking around from College green/Grafton street to Abbey street and down to the IFSC and back up again, first time I have done that in a long time. Have to say there was a great buzz in the city, lots of Americans tourist walking around seemingly enjoying themselves and lots of people just going about their business. For me there was no sense of fear or anything like that and I walked from Grafton Street to Tara Street at about 9 last night to get the Dart home and again still lots of people about enjoying the city. Walking around I will say that a lot of the city either looks run down or derelict. The area from O'Connell Street, Abbey street, Eden Quay down to the Customs House is awful run down. Not sure if there are plans for regenerating the area but it should really be looked at. It is such a waste and could be so much better. It is also the same there as you come over the Talbot Memorial bridge at the customs house and there on the corner is derelict building and the same again just at the side of Tara street train station but that is all boarded up so it looks like it will be developed.

I didn't see a big Garda presence in any of these areas and only seen one pair of Gardai on foot patrol. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing. I will say that with a bit of planning that part of the city I mentioned could be so much better. Even down by the custom house there were people sitting on the steps on one side were tourists and on the other side where homeless people but all just minding their own business.

The last line in your post is what the problem is though. Even though walking around the amount of places with signs up looking for staff, kitchen staff, bar staff and floor staff. I won't accept there is nothing to do.

And that there is the problem, all the nice bits are on the other side of the river. When it should be a pleasure to visit both sides. But that section Eden quay from O'Connell Street down to Liberty Hall is awful, you could probably count the number of premises in use there on one hand and the rest are just empty or derelict. Then at the top of O'Connell street you have the Ambassador Cinema, Garden of Remembrance, The Gresham to name a few places and then there is Henry, Jervis and Moore street that has such potential to be an attractive shopping area as well as a historical area. Imagine if they did up the area and have walking tours that around the 1916 sites that you could go in a visit and that weren't some sort of vaping or phone unlocking shop. That whole area has just been left to fall into rack and ruin.

I think the promised body cams are apolitical lie. Cost technical logistical and legal issues will hold them up for years and they already have

Getting convictions isnt a the problem its the rest of the process that is the problem, curfew bail checks , JLO x3 or 4 . then probation act x2 or 3 then community service orders suspended sentencing, short sentencing early release TR . You could have 30 convictions before you do a week of a 3 month sentence before release

The resource to have improved effective enforcement is not present , bodies cars equipment necessary skills can not be created overnight. #

If you march in5 serials of public order units and sweep the entire of temple bar or talbot street (for example) of people who are causing the problems assuming you can identify them unless you maintain a presence there indefinitely they will be back as soon as you go, some of them wil live there or be homeless in the area .

Sort of how Dublin city center will probably be very safe this weekend due to increased presence and multiple public order units etc etc etc but next weekend who knows.

AGS has degraded to below the point where we can effectively by our physical presence deter street violence and the sort of behavior discussed in this thread, we are at this point barely able to investigate most of it