Another random person hospitalized after unprovoked attack in Dublin city center

I don't believe they are a force to be reckoned with, pun intended. Travellers, crime gangs and feral scumbags have absolutely zero fear of the Gardai. I don't believe the Gardai keep the ordinary citizens of this country safe.

Now its not all their fault, its a result of useless leadership and government. Just look at the fact that the Garda Commissioner has lost the faith of his force as proof. But in plenty of other countries I've seen a public police presence that you wouldn't dare put a toe out of line in front of them. Here it is not the same. Our police wouldnt strike fear into you, they don't carry any presence, they just look like security guards in a supermarket.

I'd be more fearful or respectful of the security guys on the Luas than a Garda being honest.

NO , not everyone in Ireland call women Gardaí banners . I had never heard that term till this thread

What's needed is a complete overhaul of policing in the city and of the justice system. Neither are working.

I'd also like to see financial penalties taken from welfare.

It's offensive to me that we pay these thugs to keep them from destitution and this is how they treat society with basically zero consequences. If they are dependents on parents, take it from the parents.

We need radical changes across the board.

We are way too lenient.

Very true. Mcentee is not up to it. Useless.

Get rid and bring in a minister/party that is actually concerned about crime.

It isnt a big job to clamp down on the tiny minority causing problems. Where there's a will, there's a way.

In the meantime, I cant blame people for boycotting the city centre.

what difference does that make? its punishment that needs to be handed down.

The US tourist attack was metres away from a large garda station. Makes no difference.

The guards are catching these people but nothing happens to them.

I can see the day when the public sue the judiciary for letting multiple offenders away with violent crime.

Ah but it really has

Or tubby guards (god knows how they passed fitness tests!), or 5 foot nothing female guards, getting pushed around by scummers towering a foot or more over them.

The absolute state of some of them is ridiculous. It needs to be incorporated in performance reviews that keeping fit is part of the job requirement with a minimum 2 workouts a week. The body language aswell is shocking, I've seen the posture on some of them around Dublin, slouched over in oversized uniforms that are hanging off them. The new ones are awful.

I think it's time we start looking towards recruiting Eastern Europeans who seem to be better at keeping themselves in good shape.

That my be hard to hear for some but for policing effectively you need to be fit and have a presence to get some level of respect.

There must be zero crime back home then?

And then you'll get the woke and the Irish council for civil liberties complaining that the wheelchair bound Garda is being discriminated against for not being allowed patrol the streets or be on the mounted Garda horse unit.

Those toerags that hospitalised the US tourist could do with being seriously battered up and down the streets.

But the visible police presence is needed? Despite all the people having done their military service boot camps?

Would you put the difference down to bootcamps or the presence of the police? I would put it down to the latter because a scumbag who has discipline beaten into him in one environment is likely going to revert to type when they leave those constraints.

I'm not knocking the points on discipline. But there are other ways to instill discipline such as sports. And most kids don't get up to those illegal acts so it would seem a bit overkill to send all kids off to do a years military service (in a country with a relatively tiny military) just because a few of them might be acting the bollix

As for the begging, it would appear that, let's just say, that many of those begging might not have come through an Irish system of anything.

I remember years ago in Prague a drunken Irish guy mouthing off at randomers in a tourist area. A local cop just strolls over, whacks him in the face with a truncheon, casually strolls away again, leaving the guy twitching on the ground. Would we really tolerate such police behaviour here?