If it works, great. My life would be dramatically improved with a good electric bike but I refuse to buy one because I don’t want to go through the stress when it’s inevitably stolen.
About time! That’s it, I needed to say it
I thought this couldn’t be done because its entrapment?
Lot of effort to go through just to hand down another fully suspended sentence.
I feel like the bike/motorcycle theft problem is something where if they caught 15-20 people doing it, it would drop by 90%. There are some people going around trying their luck, but there are also gangs of teenagers just doing this as a day job unabated.
No point in tracking it, they should booby trap it. Blow up the bike, a 5m blast radius so their accomplices get a good wallop as well.
Give the Gards bull bars on the front of their cars, would be fixed in a month.
When people say Dublin is gone to shit and others start quoting crime statistics dropping, bike theft is ignored. And it’s also a massively underreported issue.
Great news
Now show us people they catch getting proper custodial sentences, and not just out and about after being caught red handed.
This makes sense. I was walking home the other day and along the graveyard road, a random bike was just sitting against the wall behind the bus stop.
No one was around and I just found it weird because I never see any bikes there without an owner floating around somewhere. It wasn’t locked and it looked like a nice bike
Ebikes should have built in GPS trackers as standard, it’s a minor drain on the battery and just seems like a sensible feature
This could be fixed in a month by passing some simple legislation. Make bike theft a mandatory 1 year custodial sentance and motorbike theft a mandatory 2 years. If you are going to only catch 5-10% of the people committing a crime, you have to make the punishment massively draconian to create a strong enough disincentive. Then you create a loophole in that law, that says if you hand over evidence against the person who is buying stolen bikes and testify against them in court, you can avoid jail, just do community service and pay compensation.
Not to be mine, but I just feel it’s a fruitless effort.
Even when you catch them with the bike, prosecute them, they’re not going to prison, a bike thief ain’t taking a cell when there is such overcrowding.
Not the Gardaí fault though, they can only do this much, not the courts either, they can’t magic up more space. So whoever’s job it is to build more prisons appropriate with the population increase would be to blame
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If it works, great. My life would be dramatically improved with a good electric bike but I refuse to buy one because I don’t want to go through the stress when it’s inevitably stolen.
About time! That’s it, I needed to say it
I thought this couldn’t be done because its entrapment?
Lot of effort to go through just to hand down another fully suspended sentence.
I feel like the bike/motorcycle theft problem is something where if they caught 15-20 people doing it, it would drop by 90%. There are some people going around trying their luck, but there are also gangs of teenagers just doing this as a day job unabated.
No point in tracking it, they should booby trap it. Blow up the bike, a 5m blast radius so their accomplices get a good wallop as well.
Give the Gards bull bars on the front of their cars, would be fixed in a month.
When people say Dublin is gone to shit and others start quoting crime statistics dropping, bike theft is ignored. And it’s also a massively underreported issue.
Great news
Now show us people they catch getting proper custodial sentences, and not just out and about after being caught red handed.
This makes sense. I was walking home the other day and along the graveyard road, a random bike was just sitting against the wall behind the bus stop.
No one was around and I just found it weird because I never see any bikes there without an owner floating around somewhere. It wasn’t locked and it looked like a nice bike
Ebikes should have built in GPS trackers as standard, it’s a minor drain on the battery and just seems like a sensible feature
This could be fixed in a month by passing some simple legislation. Make bike theft a mandatory 1 year custodial sentance and motorbike theft a mandatory 2 years. If you are going to only catch 5-10% of the people committing a crime, you have to make the punishment massively draconian to create a strong enough disincentive. Then you create a loophole in that law, that says if you hand over evidence against the person who is buying stolen bikes and testify against them in court, you can avoid jail, just do community service and pay compensation.
Not to be mine, but I just feel it’s a fruitless effort.
Even when you catch them with the bike, prosecute them, they’re not going to prison, a bike thief ain’t taking a cell when there is such overcrowding.
Not the Gardaí fault though, they can only do this much, not the courts either, they can’t magic up more space. So whoever’s job it is to build more prisons appropriate with the population increase would be to blame
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