crime in Ireland has dropped significantly

carzony · 31-03-2014 4:01pm #1

http://www.thejournal.ie/garda-crime-stats-1390325-Mar2014/

seems that every crime on the table has dropped significantly since 2012

MagicIRL · 31-03-2014 4:04pm

They won't take my stuff, they'll just take me. Brilliant.

Adamantium · 31-03-2014 4:08pm

When people give out about crime going up and say the numbers are definitely going down, If you go, “The numbers are going down,” they go, “But the fear of crime is rising.” So ****ing what? Know what I mean? Zombies are at an all-time low level, but the fear of zombies could be high, It doesn’t mean we have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies."

~Dara Ò Briain

longhalloween · 31-03-2014 4:12pm

Any statistics to show how many of these offences resulted in a conviction?

AnonoBoy · 31-03-2014 4:16pm

Those statistics are clearly massaged.

I know a Chinese girl who works in a massage place near the Four Courts. She does most of the Gardai so she probably does the stats too.

Fr_Dougal · 31-03-2014 4:16pm

Every few years they change the way they measure crime to look good, I'm calling bs on this one.

tayto lover · 31-03-2014 4:18pm

TheZohan wrote: »

Every few years they change the way they measure crime to look good, I'm calling bs on this one.

How is this done please?

Harold Weiss · 31-03-2014 4:19pm

Reports of crime could be down.

strobe · 31-03-2014 4:23pm

I'd imagine just comparing one year to the previous is fairly meaningless. You'd have to have a number of years and a consistent trend to be able to draw any worthwhile conclusions from anything surely? That's even if these are genuine decreases in rates of crime rather than some good old fashioned crime figure gerrymandering.

Nice entirely coincidental timing for major news reporting of this for an under pressure justice ministery though. Don't have much else to stand proud about I guess.

Rayne Wooney · 31-03-2014 4:23pm

I’ll swallow a lie when I have to, I’ve swallowed a few big ones lately. But the stat games. . . that lie, it’s what ruined this department. Shinning up s*** and calling it gold, so that Majors become Colonels and Mayors become Governors; pretending to do police work while the next generation ****ing trains the next how not to do the job.

Sealow · 31-03-2014 4:26pm

TheZohan wrote: »

Every few years they change the way they measure crime to look good, I'm calling bs on this one.

Have you reason to believe crime levels are not dropping?

AnonoBoy · 31-03-2014 4:33pm

Sealow wrote: »

Have you reason to believe crime levels are not dropping?

Well I for one have been committing more crimes.

poundapunnet · 31-03-2014 4:33pm

Kind of hard to blame people for not believing anything out of the gards' mouth right now to be honest. Given the drop in resources and the shady behaviour that's been exposed recently it'd be retarded to attribute it all to actual drops in offences. I'd be pretty bloody skeptical about that 17% drop in public order offences and damage to the environment being down by 10% for a start, probably has a lot to do with fewer garda stations and bodies on the street.

sprained_wang · 31-03-2014 4:36pm

Adamantium wrote: »

When people give out about crime going up and say the numbers are definitely going down, If you go, “The numbers are going down,” they go, “But the fear of crime is rising.” So ****ing what? Know what I mean? Zombies are at an all-time low level, but the fear of zombies could be high, It doesn’t mean we have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies."

~Dara Ò Briain

reminds me of the last budget where pensioners lost their free phone line allowance , word went out that the elderly would have their phones physically removed and joe duffy spent a week ( getting hard ) over the fact that the grey vote were afraid that they were going to loose their phone

GenieOz · 31-03-2014 4:39pm

tayto lover wrote: »

How is this done please?

Could take a report of a crime before whereas now it takes a conviction. Or rather than a conviction it must be a something that merited a jail sentence etc etc. Tis handy and done all the time.

RustyNut · 31-03-2014 4:44pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Well I for one have been committing more crimes.

And I'd bet the figures for illegal phone taps might be on the up next time !!!

Adamantium · 31-03-2014 4:45pm

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

I’ll swallow a lie when I have to, I’ve swallowed a few big ones lately. But the stat games. . . that lie, it’s what ruined this department. Shinning up s*** and calling it gold, so that Majors become Colonels and Mayors become Governors; pretending to do police work while the next generation ****ing trains the next how not to do the job.

I honestly believe this is how government is ran most of the time, complacent and just doing enough to stop crap boiling up above the surface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlA9hmrC8DU

maxfresh · 31-03-2014 4:54pm

Has crime in australia gone up ?

Specialun · 31-03-2014 4:56pm

78% of all stats are made up

Shady Tady · 31-03-2014 4:57pm

How could it not have dropped, half the country have emigrated!

Jonny Blaze · 31-03-2014 4:58pm

Specialun wrote: »

78% of all stats are made up

63% of people know that!

dj jarvis · 31-03-2014 4:59pm

maxfresh wrote: »

Has crime in australia gone up ?

Funny - i just thought the same thing

CrazyRabbit · 31-03-2014 5:02pm

carzony wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/garda-crime-stats-1390325-Mar2014/

seems that every crime on the table has dropped significantly since 2012

I see people are still stealing the 'Caps Lock' & 'Shift' keys from keyboards. Those bastards!

:P

ressem · 31-03-2014 5:28pm

And this "co-indices" with Garda station numbers going from 704 to 564?

Proof positive Shirley it was themselves all along. QED, etc.

crime in Ireland has dropped significantly

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