A sheer reduction of the recorded moped crimes from 24k to just around 4k in just about 4 years shows that a heavy armed approach to tackling the problem, in fact, does work.

With UK being so similar to us due to the proximity and geopolitics (we seem to love to parrot those guys with legalisations sometimes!) I don’t see a reason, other than Gardai being a sorry ass excuse of a Police institution, why this wouldn’t work on ever so increasing crime in Ireland.

I find it absolutely bullshit that the no-pursuit policy is advocated by many. It seems to work? We haven’t even tried it and there’s so many defeatism-minded people “it won’t work, it’ll put people at risk” that nothing ever would get done if we followed that train of thought.

A TikTokkers commentary on UK Police clampdown on Moped Crime
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19 comments

  2. The problem here would be soft headed judges handing out tens of thousands in taxpayers money to poor little Johnny for a scratch on his hand after he was knocked off the moped. Also Gardaí would be done for dangerous driving.

  3. As someone who’s had their motorbike stolen three times by absolute scum, I wish the police would just plough them off the bike.

    How does it make sense that they’re not allowed to intervene in case the literal criminal scum actively ruining someone’s hard earned property and potentially livelihood get hurt. They are treated with the biggest kid gloves, then if they somehow are caught the courts just let them go.

  5. Lovely, take notes Helen McEntee try doing something useful for once

  7. I’d like to see data for more years than 2021, given for 5 months of that year Londoners were barely allowed outside.

  8. So it went down during covid when no one was around to rob.

    Hardly a statistic they can use to back up their policy.

    That being said..I’m happy for them to ram into them

  9. To be fair, I rarely hear of this happening in Ireland, or see many mopeds for that matter

  10. The bleeding heart brigade will be out in force when someones 16 year old son who has 117 previous convictions gets hurt in an arrest and it’ll fall flat

  11. It would certainly boost application numbers. Loads of people would want to be on the “Knock a skanger down” squad.

  14. Damn.. this is so satisfying.. they should charge money to watch this..

  16. Can’t imagine how low it will drop when they install the flamethrowers and spikes next year.

  18. I’d loooove to see some GTA-level ploughing into stolen cars/on foot criminals from the Gardaí. Gas craic altogether. Any onlookers who get injured should have medical bills/loss of earnings covered by the thief, but we’d keep an eye out for people jumping into the situations on purpose for a false claim.

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