Posted on 03/25/2024 2:50:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Chief Executive of the Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association has described an increase in thefts last year — driven mainly by robberies from shops — as “frightening”.
Speaking on RTÉ’s News at One, Vincent Jennings said it is not just just the thefts that are concerning, but the associated incidents — such as assaults, assaults causing harm, drunkenness, misogynistic and hateful comments being made to staff and public order offenses.
Annual crime figures released by the Central Statistics Office show there was a significant increase in theft offenses last year. Almost half of the more than 74,000 thefts and related offenses last year were related to thefts from shops, a crime that is continuing to increase. Robbery, extortion and blackmail offenses increased by 26%, and burglaries also slightly increased last year. Serious and organized crime offenses remained static or reduced. […]
He (Jennings) said it is primarily food and alcohol that is stolen, as well as healthcare and cosmetics, adding that a significant number of products are stolen for resale, such as dishwasher pods.
Mr. Jennings said that while the cost of living is causing problems, some theft is just “pure and utter theft for financial purposes”. He said that because shops’ margins are low and security costs are high, to dip into that on a very regular basis makes a shop unsustainable and unviable.
He called for a zero-tolerance policy to be adopted. …
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Deep States everywhere use the same playbook.
Import Third World
Become Third World
How can any sane individual think that reducing law enforcement DOES NOT result in more crime?
Idiots.
The UK and Irish hating turds have used Dublin as a toilet for turd worlders. Downtown is unrecognizable from even as recent as 2015.
well when liberals wont prosecute it, what did they expect?
Have they done a study on which ethnic groups are doing most of the shop lifting? Or are they afraid to even attempt it?
And Ireland’s not that big. Just slightly bigger than West Virginia.
I was just on a cruise and there were some from Ireland and struck up a conversation with them. They said it’s turning into a sewer, too, with high crime rates and hoards of “migrants”.
73,500 were reports of “somebody stole me pot of gold”.
Puzzling./s
Thanks entirely to its EU membership Ireland is now just another tawdry little European cesspool.
DIEversity is their Strength....
The 21st century, neo-marxist global comintern is based in Washington DC and London.
Exactly.
It’s actually based in Berlin.
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