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gardai trust??????

  • 10-02-2004 12:20pm
    #1
    Fudger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭


    "The Irish Times-MRBI poll found that overall, 58% of voters have confidence in the fairness of the gardaí while 37% have no confidence. The poll was taken in the wake of the RTÉ Prime Time investigation into garda behaviour".

    58% have confidence? whats that about? That surely should be the other way around?!!!!

    accepted there are a few bad apples but their mainly in Bulmers!!!!!!!


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  • #2
    vorbis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭vorbis


    agreed, that programme was very sensationalist I thought. It condensed examples over 10 years into one 40 minute programme to give an illusion of widespread brutality. most guards I've come across and heard of have been pretty sound.


  • #3
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Up to recently I experienced nothing but politeness from members of the Gardaí. Then last Wednesday night, three friends and I got out of a car which my friend had just parked. He owns an old car, so I had no seat belt as I was sitting in the back. An off-duty garda saw this and started giving out to my friend very belligerently. He told my friend to take his car off his "patch", or we would throw the four of us into cells for the night. I've never experienced such an aggressive and threatening manner, and all over nothing. We were all clean cold sober, over 25 and doing nothing but getting out of a car.


  • #4
    UnrealQueen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭UnrealQueen


    Fudger, you should have put up a poll with your post.:D


  • #5
    Tyrrial
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    must say that i havn't had any problem with the gaurds. although i don't know if i'd trust them with a gun.


  • #6
    Fudger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭Fudger


    Fudger, you should have put up a poll with your post

    dam it.... o well.

    so was it a case of RTE Prime Time trying to be something its not? (ie: too smart for its own good), or to coin a phrase 'sex it up'. If so where are the netural reporters at and can anything from RTE be trusted or was anything ever? I find it hard to follow who's telling the truth these days......... I always had high regard for RTE's reporting but it does paint a bad picture in the clear light of day.

    is rte jumping on the wagon of 'shock and scare' american style reporting?


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