Why is Dublin such a shιtty city?

Again I reference Sydney, Australia.

Outside the main Central train station it's simply regarded as part of life that street people effectively live at the front doors. Addled from crystal meth, half dressed, throwing glass bottles at passers by and threatening them. Junkies passed out in fast food outlets. Police foot patrols on the street essentially don't exist, yet police routinely do walk throughs of pubs in the evening with sniffer dogs to try catch recreational drug users. They even sit in the bushes in parks and at beachsides trying to get a whiff of weed. Also regularly stand at train barriers on a Friday/ Saturday night trying to catch people hitting the town with recreational drugs on them, but leave the absolute nutters outside untouched. But the type of Garda walking or cycling about patrols you see 10 of every time you go into town here do not exist.

Funny thing is nobody really cares. The anti social state of Sydney isn't any sort of prominent political issue. Australian TV is too dumbed down to have any sort of version of Prime Time, their current affairs shows night after night after night focus on three issues- dodgy tradesmen, property scams and "hoons" (boy racers, basically)

I can't imagine anything remotely resembling it being tolerated here. I was in town yesterday and stopped counting once I'd spotted ten Gardai in two hours between Henry, OC Talbot and Parnell St. This idea that Dublin city centre is underpoliced is an absolute myth, blown to shreds by the 3000 plus arrests made in the last year.

I ask again- where are the statistics that show Dublin city centre is a no go area?

The stats that show it has got worse than it was 10, 20, 30 years ago?

I remember my ma wouldn't leave her handbag on the front seat while driving in the 90s, as there was a concern (real or imagined, who knows now) that junkies were regularly smashing passenger windows with a hammer if they spotted a bag on the seat at red lights.

Remember every Burger King had blue lights in the jacks to deter junkies from shooting up in there? (the blue lights made it harder to see your veins for injecting).

There's no public toilets any more, they were all shut in the 80s and 90s because of the drug abuse and general anti social behavior emminating from them.

While what I'm about to say is city/ countrywide rather than the OCS area itself, our national/ city rates of car theft, gangland murder, murder in general, femicide in particular, teen heroin use, and probably a few other headline crimes, have all fallen off a cliff since the 90s into 2000s decades. Never mind per 100,000, the actual numerical number of offences has declined since then despite us having a 50% population rise since 1996. A significant cohort of the people causing trouble on OCS are well into their forties, as they are the people that became hooked on heroin as teenagers in the 90s. With few people born after say 1983 being added to their ranks, and many of the original addict generation from the early 80s having been wiped out by AIDS and other injecting related illnesses, logically there should today be less junkies wandering the streets of Dublin than there was in 2010, or 2000, or 1995.

It seems strange to me that as society has generally become safer the OCS area has become worse than it ever was.

There are Gardai permanently outside GPO from early morning to dusk.

There are Gardai constantly on bike and foot throughout the rest of Temple Bar, Henry, Grafton.

Cars on constant patrol.

As said I spotted at least 10 yesterday in pairs, so five different patrols.

How much more do people think is feasible? Every third person being a guard?