Paul Williams: If Dublin’s crime problem is just a perception, why are we spending €10m on more gardaí?
by Hipster_doofus11
Paul Williams: If Dublin’s crime problem is just a perception, why are we spending €10m on more gardaí?
by Hipster_doofus11
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Because “they just don’t have the resources” lads.
Whether you believe there’s more crime or not. Probably one of the few places you should invest more money is on the people whose job is to make everyone safe.
Fuck Paul Williams!
TL;DR: Because the perception of crime rising is a problem whether or not it is true for city centre businesses and they’re the ones that get listened to.
My slightly mad idea is that you’d do a lot to improve the image by taking that 10 million and using it to eliminate those fucking stupid plastic bags that let city centre businesses and households dump on streets, or at least the main streets. Tackling poverty, drug use, social deprivation etc are hard. Making people use wheely bins and some of those underground bins would be easy.
I did some work in temple bar recently and there are groups of young lads selling crack openly outside Macdonald’s. There are junkies everywhere and knives are distributed around the area hidden in various cubby holes for later use. The place is totally out of control and you rarely see a guard. The behaviours were pointed out to me by a business owner who said it was always bad but it’s now falling to shit in there like never before.
That’s called Politics Paul.
If the problem is perception it makes perfect sense to announce something to be seen to be acting.
10m is going towards *high visibility policing* which is largely ineffective but makes people feel better
Perception is 9/10s of reality. If something is perceived to be a problem then it is a problem.
I mean, as I see it, there have been several well publicised incidents in the past while. That’s been used to spin a narrative in the media that crime is rising, when the statistics indicate the opposite. It seems absolutely nuts to me that when money is then spent to assuage those fears the spending is pointed to as proof that crime is increasing.
Or at least, that’s the impression I’m getting from the headline and the first paragraph, the article is paywalled and this isn’t the kind of newspaper I feel like supporting with actual money.
Because a lot of people vote on their perceptions not reality.
This one has already been answered. The problem is perception so the solution is perception. Dumbass electorate across the nation is as much to blame as are FF FG
Because Harris wanted to get the Gardai back on his side so he approved them receiving overtime payments.