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cusackd

Other than the Garda Press Releases can anyone tell me where they can find News that is officially broadcasted other than from media and newspapers.

Any help would be appreciated.

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granturismo

cusackd wrote: »

Other than the Garda Press Releases can anyone tell me where they can find News that is officially broadcasted other than from media and newspapers.

Any help would be appreciated.

I presume this is related to your post in the Kildare forum re your website www.crime.ie?

I was able to log a crime on Kildare Street Dublin - the crime was daylight robbery, my name was entered as Paye Worker and I entered the Collecter Generals email as my email address. This is the inherent flaw in your site - any fictious crime can be entered.

cusackd

granturismo wrote: »

I presume this is related to your post in the Kildare forum re your website www.crime.ie?

I was able to log a crime on Kildare Street Dublin - the crime was daylight robbery, my name was entered as Paye Worker and I entered the Collecter Generals email as my email address. This is the inherent flaw in your site - any fictious crime can be entered.

Cool for going off topic man, no topics are checked to a certain degree just like the entry that you added to the site it is checked and as you can see it is not put up on the site.

If you want to add any comments about my site feel free to send me a pm and ill send you my email address, please dont add it to boards id appreciate that. I would love some constructive criticism.

Regards,
cusackd

Corsendonk

cusackd wrote: »

Other than the Garda Press Releases can anyone tell me where they can find News that is officially broadcasted other than from media and newspapers.

Any help would be appreciated.

Are you looking specific kind of news or just general news or sports? There are one or two press release sites if you use a tool called google.

PCPhoto

basically you have set up a site which asks people to report local crime to you and then report local crime to the gardai.

what benefit can the website give ?
if other people are in the area it MAY alert them to be more cautious, but if they are in the area chances are they would have heard about local break-ins or similar crimes.

ALSO the flipside of that is you will be alerting criminals to which areas the gardai have been recently and basic protocol would be that gardai would be in the general area of a crime or series of crimes...so any criminals would simply be aware from your site where gardai are more likely to be.
(if for example you have 20reports of break-ins in a housing estate in Lucan, a criminal could see this on your site and choose to goto a different area of Lucan or somewhere else to continue his/her crime spree - generally criminals are caught because they stay to the same areas)

did you consider this when creating your website ? you could facilitate criminals by providing them with information on crimes on their patch !!...

your site could also be provided with false information to create an illusion of a dodgy neighbourhood - if some potential homebuyer wanted to drop the price they could use it to falsely create reports of local robberies....do you have a verification process for claims of criminal activity ?

PCPhoto

on a side note

a little advice on creating a website like this - get yourself a solicitor on retainer.

(you are on a pathway for some serious legal issues)

granturismo

cusackd wrote: »

Cool for going off topic man, ... just like the entry that you added to the site it is checked and as you can see it is not put up on the site...feel free to send me a pm and ill send you my email address, please dont add it to boards id appreciate that. I would love some constructive criticism.Regards, cusackd

My reply was related to the OP and my spoof post was up on the site for at least 10 minutes - I didnt check a third time. I was just trying to show how an inaccurate report whether deliberate or a typo can squew the data for a particular area or crime type.

fatgav

Crime.ie has re-affirmed my faith in this country. Only ten crimes in the whole country in June, and only one since the 12th.