Garda making up numbers again

Brae100 wrote: »

Garda, Revenue Officers..... all the same. Just proof that they also inflate numbers.

Yeah they’re the same just like Doctors and porters in a hospital are the same.

Tell me how wrote: »

Life is so much better when looked at through an optimistic lens.

You really should try it.

It's difficult to know how to respond to that but the fact that you seem so completely unaware of how lucky you are to be able to tell that anecdote of yours, with it's picture postcard ending, speaks volumes.

For vast swathes of our citizens, usually our oldest and most vulnerable, the idea that a phone call will bring a squad car screeching to their aid with lights flashing, sirens blaring and some criminal waiving a wad of notes at them to cover any damage to their property is quite frankly delusional.

Many of them will have to wait hours for that car to arrive, and that's if it arrives at all because in some cases resources are so thin on the ground that it may not reach them till the following day depending on the nature of the offense being reported.

So while i'm delighted that things worked out so well for you in this case, providing you with the opportunity to fling your condescending and patronising advice around so glibly..

Maybe you should really direct it at the elderly and those that actually live alone and in fear because if only they knew that all they needed was a bit of optimism as they sit at home at every night, terrified out of their minds, then i'm sure their lives would be transformed.

You could also give John O'Keefe of the GRA a loan of that magic lens of yours..

Only yesterday he was quoted as saying that if frontline officers do not have ready access to appropriately specified and modern vehicles they “can prove no match for criminals traversing city and county in high-speed vehicles”.

“Nor can they respond to simple call out requests with any degree of expediency when either a car is not available, or the one that is, is not properly maintained,” he added.

Anyway, back OT..

The Gardai and Revenue have always inflated the figures. The average person on the street would have no idea how much drugs are worth so they can pretty much get away with any figure they like, and they do.

Quite ironic that this thread was started because OP is annoyed at the misinterpretation of the value of a can of beer.

Yet the OP is doing the same themselves by quoting an article that says "revenue commissioners seized"and turning it into an issue about the gardai and numbers.

So it's okay for you to do something similar in order to complain about the very thing you have an issue with?

Okayyy....

F**k the Poooolice.........or Revenue................or Lidl...........I forgot who we're after?

Tell me how wrote: »

So you don't trust Gardai?

Well to get back on topic I trust revenue a whole lot more then I trust the Gardai.

They just seem to be a bit better at counting

But then it is their core business

The Gardai would have been disqualified from any maths paper for cheating..

mynamejeff wrote: »

is your mrs sleeping with a garda or something to cause that much bitterness ?

What bitterness

Please quote the parts of my posts that are bitter.

In the meantime i'll see your 3 and raise you 1 :pac:

2 RTA's and 2 burglaries so a good mix of serious calls that the guards were unable to respond to due as there was no car available. In fairness to the Guard in the last story, he used his own car to attend the house that had just been burgled.

I understand that people like to pretend they live in a magical world of fairy dust and moonbeams and garda cars that arrive 2 mins after you dial 999 to apprehend the bad men and take them way while they throw money at you but this is just fanciful stuff.

You might be lucky. You might not. I have no bitterness. I am realistic.

https://m.herald.ie/news/gardai-took-10-hours-to-respond-to-our-breakin-31098402.html

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/garda%C3%AD-unable-to-attend-crash-scene-as-no-car-available-inquest-told-1.3110775%3fmode=amp

https://kclr96fm.com/anger-over-a-3-hour-wait-for-gardai-to-attend-road-crash-outside-carlow/

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/newsireland/garda-used-own-car-to-respond-to-burglary-call-as-no-patrol-available/ar-BBEN7GE

Tell me how wrote: »

Get real Swanner.

I did and it seems to have touched a nerve.

I'm not sure why you and the other poster assume i'm attacking the guards

I'm not.

We have had a funding and a resourcing issue since 2010. We've closed 100's of garda stations and we're still reducing numbers of Garda even in high crime areas such as Dublin city centre.

Take Kevin Street station as an example, they have 33% less Gardai since 2010 and numbers continue to fall. That equates to 42 men and women on the street by the way and that's just one station.

It's of no consequence to me whether you believe it or not but it is the case and is backed up by official Garda figures.

Tell me how wrote: »

I just really hate whinging.

But you're whinging about hating whinging :pac:

Regardless, and with respect, that's your issue, not mine.

Boards tends to have a lot of whinging.

It's kinda par for the course.

weldoninhio wrote: »

So the Gardai decided that rather than following procedure, that they be judge and jury and sort it out “off the books”. Sounds like AGS alright, prob didn’t want the hassle of the paperwork.

Aren't you the guy that goes into a thread about any incident and immediately blame it on Muslims without any basis, and then disappear from the thread when it turns out to be another white guy with mental issues from a Christian background?

Judge and jury indeed.