Gardaí investigate after two gardaí attacked by gang of youths in Ballyfermot

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  1. Someone please ask Simon Harris if this was a result of drug taking or was this a result of terrible policy where little shits are able to do this with no consequences. This is going to get worse.

  2. Heading home from work and there was two young lads about 14 buzzing up and down the luas tracks on a stolen motorbike, you have to say this city just keeps getting better.

  3. Downvote away but it wouldn’t have happened if they had guns ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|slightly_smiling)

    They do this shit because they can, we let them !!!

  4. >“As it is, we simply do not have enough gardaí policing our streets 24/7, we do not have the necessary equipment, and are facing an exodus of officers demoralised by the entire situation.” 

    >the GRA will drive home the need for the task force when it meets Justice Minister Simon Harris this week.

    Harris’ comments about allocating more Gardai to do spot checks for drugs in night clubs is gonna look even more out of touch now, in terms of priorities.

  5. I probably lean a little closer to the”bleeding hwart”ebd if the scales, but frankly Ballyfermot especially (not not far off with a few other areas) are beginning to resemble the favellas. That’s obviously an exaggeration but seems to be getting a little less and less so as time goes by.

    The area needs to be invested in and given a bit of life since its utterly bleak and that only makes matters worse. This would be a mix of giving the area a face-lift, providing amenities and services particularly for youths, and trying to incentivise businesses into these areas to expose children on the 4th or 5th generation in a row of unemployment to the actual concept of opportunity (and to see the end result of the hard work that goes into that).

    But in the meantime, we are now at the point where riot squads need to be deployed in Ballyfermot when something like this happens, it’s broken beyond the point that can be fixed without using some of the stick to go with the carrot. They clearly are getting a kick out of the fact that they’re able to run guards out of there in frankly humiliating fashion, and we’re only likely to see more and more of it as a form of sport.

    And a wider thing in particular problem areas in my opinion is that if you are in counsel housing and get caught engaging in serious antisocial behaviour like this, all occupants of your house should be eligible for eviction or forced relocation (scattered throughout the country, to a mix of urban and rural as well as working, middle and upper class areas to disperse the ingrained social issues – though good luck on thst last one!). It’s an extreme measure, but frankly we’re entering extreme territory in what is going on in some of these areas. These slums need to be split apart, and unlike the favellas if you removed to antisocial behaviour people would flood into the frankly fantastic geographical location that is Ballyfermot pretty fecking quick.

  6. At what point are people going to get utterly fed up and start vigilante groups to deal with shit like this? I’m honestly surprised no one has grabbed a few of these little shits and driven them to the mountains and given them a whack of a hurl.

  7. Rubber bullets, water cannon and a couple of the PSNI riot land rovers be on order soon to deal with the feral rats

  8. So our police force are actually afraid of children. They won’t go into these areas when though it’s their job. Our country is a joke ran by Clueless corrupt idiots and policed by a force of cowardly corrupt underpaid fucks.

  9. They need to focus more Garda on the actual police work than having a billion Garda in tax revenue for random road spot checks. Would love to know the resources/manpower available for those two depts

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