{"id":11777,"date":"2025-03-03T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/?p=11777"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T14:57:04","slug":"government-sleepwalking-through-a-public-safety-crisis-worsening-on-their-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/government-sleepwalking-through-a-public-safety-crisis-worsening-on-their-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Government sleepwalking through a public safety crisis worsening on their watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase in weapons offences, burglaries and kidnappings comes as no surprise when the Minister for Justice talks tough on crime without taking action, according to Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputy Gannon, the party\u2019s Justice spokesperson, said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cToday\u2019s CSO report paints a picture of a policing strategy flailing aimlessly in the face of rising crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll facets of this crisis are going in the wrong direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGarda recruitment and retention numbers continue to plummet due to pay and conditions, cultural issues and a broken application process known to leave hundreds of recruits in limbo while our neighbourhood streets lie empty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Garda Commissioner has lost the trust of the force\u2019s rank-and-file, a fact that the Minister for Justice seems fine with, given his lack of action on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTalking tough without your own house in order &#8211; or, in this case, a police force and an entire department &#8211; can only deceive for so long before criminal factions see this as a weakness they can exploit, and that\u2019s reflected in the numbers we\u2019re seeing today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLast week, the Social Democrats launched our violence reduction strategy for Dublin, a policy which contains solutions that are direly needed not just in our capital but in towns and cities across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe need a coordinated multi-agency strategy to reduce crime, one that is informed by international best practice and funded accordingly by the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis includes bolstering our youth diversion schemes, offering education and advice to at-risk groups, developing restorative justice programmes and taking a health-based approach towards addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOnly when we see crime for what it really is, a group of unique problems which require a unique set of solutions, can we begin to make our streets safer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis issue has been treated with little or no respect for too long now &#8211; it\u2019s time for the Minister to take action and progress real reforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe must not just be tough on crime, but tough on the causes of crime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>3rd March, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase in weapons offences, burglaries and kidnappings comes as no surprise when the Minister for Justice talks tough on crime without taking action, according to Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon. 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